Paint Quotes · Page 29

“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

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

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

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

— Eugenio Montale

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help…

— Anonymous

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king…

— James Whistler

At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in…

— Ari Graynor

“It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered…

— Kimberly Novosel

You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time.…

— Wilferd Peterson

I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or…

— Will Barnet

I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just…

— John Chamberlain

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint…

— Andie MacDowell

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas.…

— David Johansen

You can be zany and funny or you can do something that really has some depth to it and serious, so there's…

— Jim Carrey

Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad…

— Nigel Hamilton

Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the…

— Mandy Moore

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can…

— Dino De Laurentiis

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have…

— Maya Angelou

No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something…

— David Wroblewski

I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what…

— Philip Guston

If I'm feeling tired, I just say, 'I'm going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!'

— Emma Watson

Cobra haffi pull yuh golden door knob. Paint yuh bedroom wid oil paint whey mi have.

— Mad Cobra

“Artists have to learn how to paint what's in the mirror, even if what they see is a total shit show.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

— Steve Lohr

I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph

— Man Ray

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

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

— Arshile Gorky

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

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

— William Congreve

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

— Andy Warhol

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

— Ralph Ellison

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own...

— Paul Gauguin

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

— Tina Weymouth

Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.

— Ravi Zacharias

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

— David Hockney