Paint Quotes

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

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.

Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.

If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

I can't even find the perfect brush so I can paint what's going through my mind. Racing 'gainst myself but I'm a couple steps behind.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon which the women paint their dreams.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Why talk when you can paint?

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.