Paint Quotes · Page 91

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