Paint Quotes · Page 40

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

— Seth Godin

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he…

— Steven Wright

If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.

— Raphael Soyer

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 wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I…

— Lisa Yuskavage

All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in…

— Alison Mosshart

I think that I can get into the paint anytime I want to. What I have learned is that when I do…

— Eric Bledsoe

Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using…

— Galina Vishnevskaya

I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined,…

— Douglas Coupland

I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels…

— Fabian Perez

Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown…

— Mason Cooley

Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in.…

— John Newman

It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red.…

— Lauren Oliver

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Life is about using all the skills in your toolbox. Paint your life with vibrant color, soothing music, and hang around exciting…

— Janiece Rendon

“The painters were teenage girls and young women who became friendly during their hours together and entertained themselves during breaks by playing…

— Deborah Blum

What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind…

— Joshua Foer

Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and…

— Annie Dillard

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 like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

— Tamara Feldman

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“This is the way of our work: We cannot help but color it with the paint of our feelings, both good and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.”

— Tawny Lara

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

“We never realize the power of real love unless we witness or experience a transaction, because real love costs.”

— Eric Samuel Timm

A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

— Zachery Ty Bryan

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

— Joni Mitchell

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

— Fran Lebowitz

In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

— Chris Ofili

My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it.

— Ricardo Antonio Chavira

Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.

— Craig Robinson

“Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.”

— Danny Gregory