Paint Quotes · Page 23

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

— Robert Indiana

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is…

— Pablo Picasso

This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are…

— Wolfgang Pauli

Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?

— Sam Ewing

You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.

— Dave Genn

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

— Luc Tuymans

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

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

— Umberto Boccioni

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there:…

— John Hurt

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form…

— Paul Cezanne

In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a…

— Theodor Adorno

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an…

— LeRoy Neiman

I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it.…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

3 whole Catfish, Wrapped separately Veet (It’s for Shaving your legs Only you don’t Need A razor. It’s with all the Girly…

— John Green

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a…

— Robert B. Parker

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design…

— Paul Cezanne

Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist's haven. So there are paint supplies; there's a piano…

— Will Smith

People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months…

— Grace Slick

What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they…

— David Hockney

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their…

— Anonymous

I moved in with my grandma when I was 17 and she had this giant bookshelf and it was fascinating to me.…

— Christian Madsen

I had some highlight moments in the early '60s when I used to do a lot of rubbings. I used Afta; it's…

— Peter Beard

I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather…

— Mike Figgis

“Once you have a blank canvas in front of your eyes, you can think about how you want to paint it.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

— Steven Holl

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

— Igor Babailov

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

— Frank Bruno

And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

— Robert Plant

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

— Chuck Close

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

— Chath Piersath

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

— Pablo Picasso

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

— Danny Kaye

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

— John French Sloan

“If I began to draw myself away from you we’d still be like two mixed colors of paint impossible to separate.”

— Sanober Khan

Paint a masterpiece daily. Always autograph your work with excellence.

— Greg Hickman

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

— John Fowles

Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking...,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.

— Adam Ferrara