Paint Quotes · Page 39

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

— Hannah More

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

— Joaquin Sorolla

Let me tell you, you can paint pictures and get people indicted for just about anything.

— Al D'Amato

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

— Arnold Friberg

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your…

— Norman Vincent Peale

It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

— E. J. Hughes

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the…

— Thomas Kinkade

My life will be a masterpiece to me... For I intend to paint it.

— Cv Pillay

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two…

— Peter Cushing

You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic…

— Nate Berkus

“In the canvas of the coming year, paint not just with colors of knowledge, but with the bold strokes of your inner…

— Dr. Tracey Bond

When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part,…

— Miriam Schapiro

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon…

— Rudolph Valentino

The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions…

— Robert Genn

The inside of the door is glossy white. A total re-paint. I touch it with my fingers, but it stays the same.…

— Jenny Downham

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things…

— Francis Bacon

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so…

— William S. Burroughs

If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and…

— Anonymous

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way…

— Nicolas Roeg

Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine…

— Daniel Levitin

Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've…

— Grant Morrison

Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather…

— Jackson Pollock

When an artist wants to paint a painting, they have all those things in their head that they want to portray on…

— Justin Verlander

“When I look at you I want to be a painter because to see such a beauty and not being able to…

— Galib Mammadov

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

— Balthus

As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures.

— Jensen Karp

I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of…

— Childe Hassam

The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

— G. Edward Griffin

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

— Gerhard Richter

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

— Robert Henri

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

— Meher Baba

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

— Amy Sherald

I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.

— Judith Ellen Levy

I'd hate to paint with a broad brush, but many Democrats don't feel that we have a crisis in entitlements, and Republicans…

— Dave Camp

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

— Alex Katz

I paint very quickly. And it just, it almost comes out of me like it's almost my therapy.

— David Choe

When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

— Katherine Anne Porter

“Peeta doesn’t need a brush to paint images from the Games. He works just as well in words.”

— Suzanne Collins