Paint Quotes

1684 quotes by 1090 authors

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You… — Erykah Badu
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only… — David Bailey
Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my… — Amy Adams
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and… — Roseanne Barr
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his… — Dan Brown
Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded… — Steve Albini
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like… — William S. Burroughs
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new… — Sophia Bush
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints. — A. S. Byatt
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see… — Lord Byron
I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish… — Jimmy Carter
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable… — Nick Cave
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. — Paul Cezanne
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. — Paul Cezanne
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing. — Paul Cezanne
I paint as if I were Rothschild. — Paul Cezanne
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair. — John Henrik Clarke

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