Paint Quotes · Page 27

I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

— Mary GrandPre

It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

— Paul Gauguin

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

— Hannah More

I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.

— Howard Hodgkin

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

— Tony Snow

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and…

— Eric Weiner

Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well.

— Ben Eine

It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing.

— Roger de Grey

People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which…

— Tony Robbins

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't…

— Brandon Sanderson

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness…

— John Updike

If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record…

— Barack Obama

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of…

— Pablo Picasso

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did…

— Antony Sher

I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is…

— Anish Kapoor

In collage you're doing it in stages so you're not actually doing it right there. You first of all draw it on…

— Paula Rego

I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will…

— Henry David Thoreau

My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking…

— Anonymous

Your history's not going to go away; it isn't the same thing as dirt on the floor or paint peeling off the…

— Steven C. Hayes

It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know…

— Jim Elliot

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at…

— D. H. Lawrence

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was…

— Blaise Pascal

I had a babysitter when I was 12 or younger. I had a big crush on her. She was really spontaneous and…

— Zac Efron

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

— Jacques-Louis David

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

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

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 like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

— Tamara Feldman

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Osamu Dazai

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

— Brian Eno

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

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

— Robert Breault