Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

When a seed sprouts, it's a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a… — Michele Cassou
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
To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere. — Umberto Boccioni
Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If you are in… — Ian K. Smith
I just can't seem to paint nice things. — Ivan Albright
Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at. — Glenn Ligon
When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm… — Samuel Palmer
When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun… — Galarrwuy Yunupingu
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to… — Laurie Lee
A painter paints because he has no time not to paint. — Josef Albers
I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel. — Josef Albers
I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things. — Leon Battista Alberti
To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but… — Allison Glock
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion. — John Armstrong
I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting. — William Morris Hunt
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political,… — Harold Rosenberg
Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed.… — Megan Hart
Paris Hilton has launched a new champagne in a can called Rich Prosecco. For the ad campaign Paris posed wearing nothing but gold paint. That’s… — Chelsea Handler
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both… — Robert Motherwell
I do not paint in front of but from within nature. — Arshile Gorky
In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink… — Saul Leiter
In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets… — Philip Guston
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. — Philip Guston
No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope that… — Philip Guston

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