Paint Quotes · Page 25

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

— Robert Henri

It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.

— Elizabeth Streb

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

— Franz Kline

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

— Arshile Gorky

“Life is a great big canvas,and you should throw all paint you can on it……”

— Danny Kaye

This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“This is why I paint," he says. "To get black men into museums.”

— Jennifer Clement

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

— Swami Vivekananda

I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to…

— John Constable

The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do…

— Horace Pippin

Body cameras help to record what happens. It may not be the golden ticket, the golden egg, the end-all-fix-all, but it helps…

— Clementa C. Pinckney

Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a…

— Allan Kaprow

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream…

— Leonid Afremov

I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to…

— Francis Bacon

There are certain people I do want to absolutely dislike me. And I want them to paint me as their enemy. Because…

— John Calipari

To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business,…

— Monica Drake

I think we had an incredible opportunity to capitalize on that right up to Libya. I think we've made a step toward…

— Morgan Spurlock

Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between…

— James Wan

The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line…

— Andrew Forge

The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the…

— Arnold Friberg

If you don't own a train company then you go and paint on one instead... it all comes from that thing at…

— Banksy

What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and…

— Ian Hornak

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I…

— Robert Rauschenberg

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

— Darren Shan

I like to paint pictures with words, 'cause I can't draw for anything.

— Iman Shumpert

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint…

— Francisco Goya

“We are all artists; painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am…

— Hiroko Sakai

Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.

— Walter Keane

I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every…

— David Lynch

“Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination.”

— Seth

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

— Tyne Daly

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as…

— Oriana Fallaci

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

— David Hockney

I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.

— Amrita Sher-Gil

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I…

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Emil Nolde