Paint Quotes · Page 57

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

— Neville Brody

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.

— Luke Hemmings

When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It…

— Akhil Sharma

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

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

— Michelangelo

I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year…

— Douglas Lockwood

Staring at him the way she might stare at a beloved place she was not sure she would ever see again, trying…

— Cassandra Clare

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

— Alex Katz

When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The…

— William Shakespeare

I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My…

— Shaquille O'Neal

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of…

— James Elkins

You can paint your soul with any medium.

— Jeet Aulakh

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

— Edouard Manet

I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.

— Brian Fallon

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is…

— Samuel Johnson

Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint.

— Princess Diana

Huge advances in clean energy technology are happening all the time. Solar and wind are booming. New ways to generate energy from…

— Katharine Hayhoe

We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To…

— Tennessee Williams

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.

— Eugene Delacroix

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have…

— John O'Neill

I used to paint.

— Gauri Khan

[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to…

— Otto Dix

“It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered…

— Kimberly Novosel

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they…

— Diane Ackerman

There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint…

— Esther Hicks

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

— Alberto Giacometti

Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.

— Cory Trepanier

Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession…

— Titian

I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was…

— Ansel Elgort

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

— Anthony Hopkins

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

— Jonathan Lethem

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is…

— Lin Yutang

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

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood.…

— Kazuo Ishiguro