Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the… — Oscar Wilde
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot… — Eric Hoffer
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a… — John Ruskin
In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to. — Beatrice Lillie
It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance. — Pablo Picasso
Look from the blind man's eye.... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make… — Fawad Afzal Khan
My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three… — Anthony Doerr
Camera lies all the time. Itâ€™s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when youâ€¦ the moment… — Richard Avedon
Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a… — Georgia O'Keeffe
I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in… — Georgia O'Keeffe
Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of… — Georgia O'Keeffe
I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to. — Georgia O'Keeffe
No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink. — Terry Pratchett
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a… — Abraham Maslow
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes to the monkey… — Marat Safin
Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you… — George H. W. Bush
I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can… — Willem de Kooning
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. — Willem de Kooning

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