Paint Quotes · Page 28

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

— Drake

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

— Nathan Oliveira

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

— Man Ray

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

— Jenim Dibie

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

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

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

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

— David Hockney

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

— James Elkins

Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics,…

— Keyshawn Johnson

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what…

— Carly Simon

You can sometimes avoid costly mistakes. Paint a corner of the room a certain color to see how the light affects it.…

— Alexandra Stoddard

Once you have MIDI information - I mean, it's a bit technical - that's your paint. You can slow down, pitch up,…

— Tim Hecker

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from…

— Maurice Sendak

I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and…

— Marilynne Robinson

I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as…

— Michael Gungor

I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of…

— Jacob Lawrence

Leah: "That is easily the freakin’ grossest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Yuck. If there was anything in my stomach,…

— Stephenie Meyer

You know what else is hot?" said a nameless blonde as she put her arm around the one black girl. "What?" "Bisexuals."…

— Libba Bray

My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me.…

— John Constable

Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship…

— Euell Gibbons

I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical…

— John Lurie

I'm working hard to have a good life. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You…

— Joan Bauer

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

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

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

— Madeleine L'Engle

“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

“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

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

— Harvey Dunn

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Emil Nolde

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

— David Gemmell

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

— Abbie Cornish

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

— Eric Samuel Timm

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

— Darren Shan

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Jennifer Clement