Paint Quotes · Page 26

All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

— David Gemmell

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

— Robert Breault

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

— Harvey Dunn

“Sometimes the answers you need to hear aren't the answers you want to hear.”

— Eric Samuel Timm

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

— Abbie Cornish

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

— Brian Eno

“I’m going to paint too. I’m going to paint pictures of ghosts and devils and horses out of hell.”

— Osamu Dazai

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

— Robert Breault

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife…

— Ben Shahn

I believe in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint,…

— Gerhard Richter

Paint wet like it's aroused. So high I can kiss the clouds. I roll up in sour flowers and smoke till I'm…

— Killa Kyleon

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And…

— Molly Harper

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all…

— Allan Nevins

As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you…

— Milton Resnick

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have…

— Robert Rauschenberg

There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I feel like we're always on the edge of someone standing up and saying, "Hey, the emperor's naked." I'm expecting that any…

— Alan Sparhawk

I wish I could be more serious about painting. I think there may be something going on there and I should pursue…

— Lou Doillon

What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking…

— James Elkins

There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing…

— Olesya Rulin

In interior decorating, the pig's actually quite there. It's used in paint for the texture, but also for the glossiness. In sandpaper,…

— Christien Meindertsma

I've spent so much of my life examining the smallest details. In some ways, it's where I feel most at home. For…

— Jacob Collier

Even though I was painted, even though I had on seven layers of paint - to the point that I got a…

— Ronda Rousey

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is…

— Toni Morrison

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

— Edvard Munch

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

— Man Ray

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

— Nathan Oliveira

Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.

— Drake

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he…

— Steven Wright

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

— Seth Godin

“I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry.”

— Jenim Dibie

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

— Orhan Pamuk

If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.

— Raphael Soyer

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

— Robert Breault

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

— Fred Armisen

I was always trying to get in the paint and get the easiest shots I can.

— Ivica Zubac

Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.

— Tony Bennett