Paint quotes:

Send

Paint ideas, paint thought. -- Howard Pyle
Paint something every day. -- David Hockney
Paint like a pig eats. -- Richard Schmid
Paint faster than you can think. -- Alex Katz
Paint the essential character of things. -- Camille Pissarro
Paint what you like and die happy -- Henry Miller
Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas. -- Stephane Mallarme
Paint what you see, not what you know. -- Charles Webster Hawthorne
Painters must speak through paint, not through words. -- Hans Hofmann
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. -- Paul Cezanne
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? -- Alexander McCall Smith
Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you. -- Robert Henri
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead. -- M. F. Husain
Paint what you see and look with your own eyes. -- Gilbert Stuart
Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces. -- Stephane Mallarme
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. -- Robert Genn
Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers. -- Robert Henri
Paint goes a long way in making old look like new. -- Candice Olson
Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel. -- Ben Shahn
Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now. -- Pat Croce
Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas. -- T. S. Eliot
You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well. -- Dave Ramsey
Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint. -- Charles Webster Hawthorne
Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks. -- John French Sloan
Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you. -- Robert Henri
Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at. -- Glenn Ligon
Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. -- Oliver Cromwell
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. -- Vincent Van Gogh
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. -- Frida Kahlo
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. -- Fran Lebowitz
I don't say everything, but I paint everything. -- Pablo Picasso
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. -- John Singer Sargent
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. -- Michelangelo
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. -- Henri Matisse
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. -- Pablo Picasso
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. -- Paul Klee
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. -- Ellen Key
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either. -- Vincent Van Gogh
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? -- Pablo Picasso
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. -- Adolf Hitler
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. -- Pablo Picasso
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. -- Man Ray
A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. -- Chester W. Nimitz
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. -- Norman Vincent Peale
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. -- Abraham Maslow
I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can. -- Andy Warhol
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. -- Pablo Picasso
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. -- Pablo Picasso
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively. -- Julia Cameron
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest. -- Paul Cezanne
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. -- Pierre Bonnard
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. -- Frida Kahlo
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. -- Honore de Balzac
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. -- Willem de Kooning
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? -- Pablo Picasso
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. -- Frida Kahlo
--
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. -- Salvador Dali
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all. -- Alberto Giacometti
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing. -- Paul Cezanne
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want. -- George Lucas
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours. -- Ed Sheeran
It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are. -- Tony Curtis
Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture. -- Marilyn Monroe
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
Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento. -- Susan Minot
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. -- Bob Dylan
It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial. -- Michael Moritz
I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater. -- Harriet Tubman
I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas. -- Louise L. Hay
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are. -- Maya Angelou
I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. -- Rick Perry
I paint abstract expressions. -- Billy Zane
I choose to paint beauty. -- Igor Babailov
I don't paint, I hit. -- Karel Appel
I paint my own reality. -- Frida Kahlo
I paint when I cannot photograph. -- Man Ray
It's an honor to paint cats. -- Oliver Johnson
Why talk when you can paint? -- Milton Avery
Master water first and then paint. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
--
If you can't paint, paint Big. -- Audrey Flack
Artists who don't paint aren't artists. -- Billy Childish
Everyday's a good day when you paint -- Bob Ross
Don't paint the apple; paint the red. -- Arthur Lismer
Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint. -- Princess Diana
I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint. -- Mackenzie Foy
Never paint your wife or your mother. -- George W. Bush
God sends experience to paint men's portraits. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Live to paint, don't paint to live. -- Walter Darby Bannard
I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks. -- Bam Margera
I paint as if I were Rothschild. -- Paul Cezanne
I paint. I love the visual arts. -- Kristin Bauer van Straten
I don't paint nature. I am nature. -- Jackson Pollock
The media paint ugly pictures about you. -- Kim Basinger
I paint the walls with his blood. -- DMX
I will paint for money any time. -- Winslow Homer
You can either buy shoes or paint. -- Janice Tanton
I paint in order not to cry. -- Paul Klee
The thicker you paint, the more it flows. -- John Singer Sargent
Tis human actions paint the chart of time. -- James Montgomery
I paint flowers to prevent them from dying -- Frida Kahlo
'Tis human actions paint the chart of time. -- James Montgomery
They wore their strange beauty like war paint. -- Holly Black
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime. -- Claude Monet
I never draw except with brush and paint... -- Claude Monet
He that cannot paint must grind the colors. -- J. G. Holland
I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint. -- Elsie de Wolfe
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself. -- Benjamin Franklin
We only have our nervous system to paint. -- Francis Bacon
Even when you paint, you never stop drawing. -- Igor Babailov
I paint with my back to the world -- Agnes Martin
I do not paint nature. I am nature. -- Jackson Pollock
I just can't seem to paint nice things. -- Ivan Albright
I paint flowers so they will not die. -- Frida Kahlo
I have a fierce desire to paint colour. -- Fred Williams
You can paint your soul with any medium. -- Jeet Aulakh

Send