Paint Quotes · Page 34

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

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

— Fred Armisen

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Chath Piersath

My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho…

— Kehinde Wiley

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love…

— Jeff Bridges

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light…

— Pete Seeger

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn,…

— Pierre Bonnard

“Every time I messed up, I was tempted to start over. But starting over wouldn’t have erased the mistakes I made. So…

— Shireen Ayache

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it -…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a…

— John Clayton

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for…

— Herwarth Walden

Huge advances in clean energy technology are happening all the time. Solar and wind are booming. New ways to generate energy from…

— Katharine Hayhoe

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a…

— John Singer Sargent

I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself.…

— Alec Monopoly

You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the…

— Sue Lowden

Education, especially business education will only give you tools. What you do with these tools is all that matters. Life and business…

— Gene Simmons

I am sort of proud that I think radio has become a dominant influence in shaping public opinion. Good radio paints the…

— Rush Limbaugh

A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is…

— Socrates

The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you…

— Jordan Peele

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

— Chuck Close

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

— Robert Plant

“If I began to draw myself away from you we’d still be like two mixed colors of paint impossible to separate.”

— Sanober Khan

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

— Danny Kaye

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

— John French Sloan

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

— Pablo Picasso

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

— Wayne Thiebaud

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