Paint Quotes · Page 94

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise,…

— Edvard Munch

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even…

— Miranda July

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not…

— Dougray Scott

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so…

— William S. Burroughs

The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful…

— Anne Carson

She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make…

— Lawrence Durrell

I paint because I love to paint. If someone buys the prints or whatever, so be it, but it's not my main…

— Amanda Seales

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own…

— Emily Carr

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

— Joseph Joubert

How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to…

— John Marin

I think we all go through times in our lives when we decide, "I'm going to try something else." I tried filmmaking…

— Samuel Bayer

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

— Mary Astor

One never paints violently enough.

— Eugene Delacroix

If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild…

— Brené Brown

I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

— Dimebag Darrell

Impressionists have to paint with a very broad stroke because you've got to see it within a couple of seconds. You go,…

— Gary Oldman

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular…

— Peter Wright

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful…

— Taiye Selasi

Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship…

— Juan Cole

“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if…

— James Lee Schmidt

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

— Josef Albers

I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.

— Marge Piercy

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

— Balthus

I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to…

— Janice Tanton