Paint Quotes · Page 45

I feel like I touch the paint basically every play I'm out there.

— Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

— Martin Mull

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.

— George Jones

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to…

— Pablo Picasso

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

— Francesco Clemente

“You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life.”

— Kate McGahan

I always pride myself on being an inside and outside player and pride myself on what I can do inside the paint.

— Brook Lopez

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

— Maxwell Bodenheim

I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to…

— Lucian Freud

I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in…

— Jackson Browne

So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And…

— Kenny Rogers

I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for…

— Chris Mars

I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into…

— Manila Luzon

What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that,…

— David Hockney

If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd…

— Rudyard Kipling

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and…

— Meg Rosoff

This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate…

— Herbert Read

But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely…

— Gerhard Richter

For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or…

— Barry McGee

“I love salmon. Of all my fishy friends, I love salmon the best. Or trout. Or tuna. Or smelts. Oh heck. I…

— Mallory M. O'Connor

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability…

— Mos Def

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions…

— John Steinbeck

The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They…

— John Ruskin

There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of…

— Gerhard Richter

Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

— Norman Reedus

Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

— Wanda Koop

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.

— Abbi Jacobson

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do…

— Seth Godin

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

— Danny Kaye

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wanna be free. Free to scream, free to bathe, free to paint my toes all day.

— Shanice

As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out…

— Alan Bean

Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that.

— Ted Leo

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

— John F. Carlson

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

— Danny Kaye

I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

— Kehinde Wiley

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

— Robert Mapplethorpe