Paint Quotes · Page 93

When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end -…

— Walter J. Phillips

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

— Agnes Martin

If I was president, of course I'd want an amendment banning boy bands, but it just wouldn't be right, and I wouldn't…

— Jessi Klein

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

— David Choe

“I miss being in Barbados in December, That is a time I always remember, The smell of varnish on the wooden floors,…

— Charmaine J Forde

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

— Umberto Boccioni

Yeah, in my scripts, I don't tend to describe landscape too clearly because I like to keep it really basic and sort…

— Sean Durkin

I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it.…

— Cy Twombly

“If you mess up, all you have to do is paint over it.”

— Shireen Ayache

This week a man was arrested for jumping over the White House fence and trying to spray paint a political message. If…

— Jimmy Fallon

I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these…

— Adam Savage

“Let us paint depth, joy, and happiness onto the canvas of our lives, for it is a vital and gratifying endeavor. (Painting…

— Erik Pevernagie

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

— Andre Malraux

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

— Hans Hofmann

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It…

— David Bailey

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

— Francesco Clemente

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches…

— Samuel Palmer

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

— John Armstrong

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but…

— John Edgar Park

I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just…

— John Chamberlain

“It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.”

— Steven Wright

My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the…

— Paul McCartney

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

— Pele