Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept… — James Cameron
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how… — Carrie Chapman Catt
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in… — Pierre Bonnard
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
I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house. — Edward Hopper
I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one. — Gustave Courbet
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels… — David Sylvester
Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones. — Arthur Rackham
When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no… — Jackson Pollock
It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said. — Jackson Pollock
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid… — Jackson Pollock
I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident. — Jackson Pollock
He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ. — Fra Angelico
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by… — Denis Diderot
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
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves. — Oskar Kokoschka
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 build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say… — Edvard Munch
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. — Madeleine L'Engle
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my… — Ralph Bakshi
At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband… — Maggie Gallagher
All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere. — Maurice Denis
A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which… — Paul Gauguin
If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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