Paint Quotes · Page 46

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

— Matthew Prior

When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

— Henri Matisse

During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living…

— Ronnie Wood

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

— Joni Mitchell

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an…

— LeRoy Neiman

I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I…

— Robbie Robertson

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint…

— Alice Neel

I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and…

— Mike Mignola

I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to…

— J. August Richards

People say, 'Why don't you just paint with paintbrushes?' I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin.…

— Meredith Ostrom

I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could…

— Cindy Sherman

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

— Willem de Kooning

You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a…

— Toshiko Takaezu

“You want me to explain myself! give me a brush, not a pen”

— Kathe Epp

I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

— Amos Ferguson

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

— Francis Bacon

Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad…

— John Newman

Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and…

— Jasper Johns

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

— Rumi

I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery.

— Douglas Lockwood

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

— Saint Augustine

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything,…

— Keith Haring

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

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

— Kehinde Wiley