Paint Quotes · Page 30

It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint…

— Jenny Downham

Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking...,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.

— Adam Ferrara

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

— John Fowles

Paint a masterpiece daily. Always autograph your work with excellence.

— Greg Hickman

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

— Lana Del Rey

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

— Pablo Picasso

“He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.”

— O. Henry

I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces.

— Frederick Varley

If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way…

— Tobin Bell

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is…

— Jean-Francois Millet

I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and…

— Bobbi Brown

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard.…

— Jennifer Tilly

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Once 'A.N.T. Farm' started, I was inspired by Chyna to jazz up my style. Now I paint my nails bright, fun colors…

— China Anne McClain

Paris Hilton has launched a new champagne in a can called Rich Prosecco. For the ad campaign Paris posed wearing nothing but…

— Chelsea Handler

When you have a dream, you don't even want to tell yourself straight out that this is what you want. You try…

— Rita Ackermann

You think the only people who are people, Are the ones who look and think the way you do, But if you…

— Stephen Schwartz

Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising…

— Philip Guston

Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

…* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be…

— Sylvia Plath

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else…

— Paul Cezanne

Cinema is the most challenging art form that you as an artist can create. It's easier to paint a painting because you're…

— Baran Odar

Some liberal interest groups have come out in full force and have attempted to paint Judge [Samuel] Alito to be an extremist…

— Chuck Grassley

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint…

— Juan Gris

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

— Tanith Lee

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

— Douglas Lockwood

After a thousand watercolors you will find you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

— Rex Brandt

“But I want to paint you. That’s how artists come to possess things beyond their means, can you understand that?”

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

— Scott Kahn

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

— Steven Holl

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

— Umberto Boccioni

“Once you have a blank canvas in front of your eyes, you can think about how you want to paint it.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.

— Dave Genn

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

— Luc Tuymans

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

— Igor Babailov

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

— Frank Bruno

And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

— Chath Piersath