Quotes and Sayings About Paint
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I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
-- Adolph Gottlieb -
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
-- Ajay Naidu -
Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
-- Al McGuire -
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 -
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
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 -
Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.
-- Alex Katz -
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
-- Alexander Pope -
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
-- Alexander Pope -
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
-- Alice Neel -
I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.
-- Alice Neel -
I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.
-- Amos Ferguson -
It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day...
-- Andrew McDermott -
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 -
I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.
-- Arjun Rampal -
There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.
-- Arnold Friberg -
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.
-- Arshile Gorky -
I do not paint in front of but from within nature.
-- Arshile Gorky -
Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
-- Arthur Rackham -
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
-- Balthus -
I'd tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.
-- Bat for Lashes -
In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.
-- Beatrice Lillie -
Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.
-- Ben Shahn