A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The painter paints his brushes black, Through the canvas runs a crack, Portrait of the pain never answers back... — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience. — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get… — Jason Shawn Alexander Copy Share Image
As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that… — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“The firelight danced on his mask, warming the gold, setting the emeralds glinting. Such colour and variation- colours I didn't know the… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
When I started to paint, I painted children because I just felt that I wanted to take their side. What always upset… — Gottfried Helnwein Copy Share Image
My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course… — David Russell Copy Share Image
I think there is a classy way to go about changing people's views about how they treat animals, and that is with… — Katie Cleary Copy Share Image
The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
I couldn't get a job acting all the time and there were down periods where I could take photographs or paint. I… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When I paint to please other people I tend to lose the free spirit creative edge. — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“When you're devoted to someone's heart, you either paint it or pain it.” — Nouf Alfadl Copy Share Image
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
“Will you teach me how to paint?” “Just paint.” “I’m not any good.” “Do it for therapy. You can go to art… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“If she lived here, the first thing she'd do is get out her paint brush and color the world.” — Dale Mayer Copy Share Image
The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint. — Pele Copy Share Image
The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work. — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. — James Howell Copy Share Image
I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places — Lemn Sissay Copy Share Image
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next. — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
