Best I Paint Quotes

185 I Paint quotes by 124 unique authors

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure,… — Willem de Kooning
Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit. — Tyson Chandler
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas… — H R Giger
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself. — Alberto Giacometti
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality. — Keith Haring
If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this… — Pablo Picasso
I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be. — Lucian Freud
When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience… — Pierre Alechinsky
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order… — Otto Dix
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as… — Edvard Munch
I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. — Raoul Dufy
I paint what I see and not what others like to see. — Edouard Manet
It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures — Salvador Dali
I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the… — Lucian Freud
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.… — Jasper Johns
I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh. — Peter Paul Rubens
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly. — Claude Monet
I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint. — Helen Frankenthaler
My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which… — Joan Mitchell
I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me. — Franz Kline
People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as… — Franz Kline
If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does. — Franz Kline
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which… — Morris Graves
I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel. — Josef Albers
I paint life as I would like it to be, — Norman Rockwell

Who Wrote These I Paint Quotes

124 authors contributed a total of 185 I Paint Quotes, led by these top contributors: