Paint Quotes · Page 41

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

— Jonathan Lethem

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

— Olive Schreiner

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.

— Kehinde Wiley

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

— David Cross

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

— Lucian Freud

You don't have to get all the way into the paint to still draw attention or get contact.

— Jrue Holiday

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

— Barack Obama

It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of…

— Alice Neel

I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and…

— Mike Royer

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH,"…

— Joel Garreau

You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept,…

— Henry David Thoreau

One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my…

— E. J. Hughes

Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting…

— Kelly Wearstler

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

— Euan Uglow

When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes,…

— Paula Rego

When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not…

— Gerhard Richter

For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris.…

— Alan Jay Lerner

I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it…

— Arshile Gorky

I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model…

— Alek Wek

“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree,…

— Peter Heller

I have a different experience. My father was a small-businessman. He worked really hard. He printed drapery fabrics on long tables, where…

— Hillary Clinton

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully…

— Bob Beauprez

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

— Man Ray

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things…

— Wayne Thiebaud

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

— Gerhard Richter

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint...

— Bruce Springsteen

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do…

— Madeleine L'Engle

If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!

— Sergei Bongart

Life is like a painting, you can paint it to look like anything...

— Hannah Aliyah Edge

Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.

— Oliver Cromwell

If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

George Clooney is on the program tonight. Next week at this time I will be in a hardware store watching them mix…

— David Letterman

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

— Pablo Picasso

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils…

— William Merritt Chase

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

— Marya Mannes

“I want to paint you.' He gently lifted me into his arms. 'Nude would be best,' he said in my ear.”

— Sarah J. Maas

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

— Brahmananda Saraswati