Paint Quotes · Page 12

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work…

— Alberto Giacometti

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

— Rollo May

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is…

— Joni Mitchell

I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was…

— Ben E. King

I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint…

— Grandma Moses

Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the…

— Alan Rickman

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

— Norman Rockwell

Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

— Julian Eltinge

You might be a redneck if your vehicle has a two-tone paint job - primer red and primer gray.

— Jeff Foxworthy

But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare…

— John Constable

When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four…

— Dogen

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

— Orhan Pamuk

Whether I'm at home and researching online or whether I'm in the studio just drawing, I think I'm more interested in practical…

— Camille Henrot

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

— Nate Lowman

Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss.…

— Rajneesh

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or…

— William Butler Yeats

And yet my life seemed to be just one big mass of people. I would never ask some people in for tea…

— Myfanwy Pavelic

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

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

— Ajay Naidu

Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having…

— Calvin Miller

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

— Joe Bradley