Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home. — Edward Rowland Sill
Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries. — Neville Brody
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. — Chuck Close
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
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two. — Tony Snow
I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when… — Placido Domingo
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 cuckoo then, on… — William Shakespeare
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?' — Larry Ellison
Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals. — Unknown Author
Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live.… — Peggy Guggenheim
When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life… — Lindsey Buckingham
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a… — Lydia M. Child
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things… — E E Cummings
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel.… — Stanley Kubrick
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
You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back… — Edward Snowden
I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being… — Lucian Freud
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
It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to… — Lucian Freud
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does — Lucian Freud
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all. — Alberto Giacometti
It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of… — Twyla Tharp
Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our souls. No one… — David A. Bednar

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