Paint quotes

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
-- Abbey Lincoln

#Paint #Therapists #Couches

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
-- Adolph Gottlieb

#Thinking #Use #Paint

I paint with my back to the world
-- Agnes Martin

#World #Paint

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
-- Ajay Naidu

#Theatre #Definitions #Paint

Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Guy #Paint

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.
-- Alan Bean

#Moon #Paint

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Would Be #Paint #Marvellous

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Reality #Paint #Protect

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Color #Intention #Paint

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.
-- Alex Katz

#Different #Way #Paint

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Paint #Painter #Bleak

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
-- Alexander Pope

#Painting #Paint #Feels

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
-- Alexander Pope

#Saint #Paint #Grows

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
-- Alice Neel

#Art #Thank God #Paint

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.
-- Alice Neel

#Thinking #Paint #Theory

I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.
-- Amos Ferguson

#Sight #Giving #Paint

It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day...
-- Andrew McDermott

#Thinking #Hours #Paint

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.
-- Andy Summers

#Play #Records #Paint

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.
-- Arjun Rampal

#Nails #Normal #Paint

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.
-- Arnold Friberg

#Paint #Colour

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.
-- Arshile Gorky

#Art #Drawing #Paint

I do not paint in front of but from within nature.
-- Arshile Gorky

#Paint

Don't paint the apple; paint the red.
-- Arthur Lismer

#Apples #Red #Paint

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
-- Arthur Rackham

#Sunny #Hours #Paint

If you can't paint, paint Big.
-- Audrey Flack

#Rejection #Paint #Bigs

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
-- Balthus

#Painting #Language #Paint

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
-- Bam Margera

#Hot #Hot Chick #Paint

I'd tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.
-- Bat for Lashes

#Naked #Body #Paint

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.
-- Beatrice Lillie

#Paint #Ability

Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.
-- Ben Shahn

#Believe #Paint #Feels

Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.
-- Bill Harry

#Paint #Rudders #Pedals

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Guy #Paint #Stills

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Black And White #Paint #Wanted

Artists who don't paint aren't artists.
-- Billy Childish

#Artist #Paint

I paint abstract expressions.
-- Billy Zane

#Expression #Paint #Abstract

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.
-- Bob Ross

#Want #Paint

Everyday's a good day when you paint
-- Bob Ross

#Good Day #Everyday #Paint

I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.
-- Brian Froud

#Soul #Spirit #Paint

My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.
-- Brian Johnson

#Knowing #Risk #Paint

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.
-- Bruno Tonioli

#Paint

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
-- Caio Fonseca

#Mixing #Rooms #Paint

Paint the essential character of things.
-- Camille Pissarro

#Character #Essentials #Paint

I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.
-- Carl Schmitt

#Want #Tone #Paint

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Belief #Human Nature #Paint

Paint what you see, not what you know.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne

#Vision #Paint

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Host #Photograph #Paint

I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.
-- Chris Tucker

#Acting #Stuff #Paint

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
-- Chuck Berry

#Art #Thinking #Paint

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...
-- Claude Monet

#Miracle #Paint #Performing

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
-- Claude Monet

#Desire #Paint #Fine

Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
-- Claude Monet

#Thinking #People #Paint

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
-- Claude Monet

#Lifetime #Enough #Paint

A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Kids #Paper #Paint

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
-- Daniel Dennett

#Life #Coats #Paint

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.
-- David Bailey

#School #Exam #Paint

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.
-- David Cross

#Hate #Bumper Sticker #Paint

My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.
-- David Hasselhoff

#Paint #Site #Stills

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
-- David Hockney

#Unusual #Paint #British

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
-- David Hockney

#Landscape #Paint #Worn

Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.
-- David Sylvester

#Empathy #Looks #Paint

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.
-- Dean Mitchell

#Art #Perception #Paint

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface,
-- Donald Judd

#Powerful #Space #Paint

It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.
-- E. J. Hughes

#Paint #Danger #Dangerous

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.
-- Edouard Manet

#Paint

One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.
-- Edouard Manet

#Paint

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
-- Edouard Manet

#Paint #Begin Again #Humbug

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.
-- Edouard Manet

#Paint

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
-- Edvard Munch

#Vision #Saws #Paint

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
-- Edvard Munch

#Want #Mood #Paint

Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
-- Edvard Munch

#Interesting #Firsts #Paint

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
-- Edvard Munch

#Enemy #Portraits #Paint

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
-- Edvard Munch

#People #Youth #Paint

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
-- Edward Hopper

#Trust #Newton #Paint

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.
-- Edward Ruscha

#Roots #House #Paint

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.
-- El Greco

#Spirit #Paint

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.
-- Eleanora Duse

#Use #Paint #Made

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.
-- Elizabeth Peyton

#Needs #Paint #Wells

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
-- Emily Carr

#Writing #Soul #Paint

Matte or satin sheen scuffs up very easily. So, unless you have it professionally done, definitely paint shelves or cabinets with something with a higher sheen.
-- Emily Henderson

#Done #Cabinets #Paint

An artist paints his own reality.
-- Ernie Barnes

#Artist #Reality #Paint

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Facts #Appearance #Paint

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
-- Ethan Hawke

#Twenties #Paint #Stills

Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.
-- Eugene Delacroix

#Looks #Study #Paint

If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.
-- Eugene Delacroix

#Country #Patriotic #Paint

I was never one to paint space, I paint air.
-- Fairfield Porter

#Air #Space #Paint

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
-- Fareed Zakaria

#Want #Paint #Doom

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
-- Fra Angelico

#Men #Paint

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.
-- Frank Capra

#Helping #Paint #Delusion

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.
-- Franz Kline

#Feelings #Paint

I paint flowers so they will not die.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Flower #Paint #Woman Artist

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying
-- Frida Kahlo

#Flower #Dying #Paint

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.
-- Geoffrey Holder

#Paint

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.
-- Georg Baselitz

#Past #Facts #Paint

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
-- George Clooney

#Fun #Paint #Ends

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.
-- George Crabbe

#Paint #Bards

Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.
-- George Luks

#Art #Shoes #Paint

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
-- Georges Braque

#Space #Paint #Dishes

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
-- Georges Braque

#Tangible #Paint #Made

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.
-- Georges Rouault

#Moving #Christ #Paint

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.
-- Georges Vantongerloo

#Order #Feelings #Paint