Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky. — Henri Matisse
A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big. — Georgia O'Keeffe
You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and… — Zig Ziglar
You and I could paint the sky together. As the world goes by, we'll go on forever. — Kaskade
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work. — Seth Godin
So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something… — Katherine Dunham
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw… — William Shakespeare
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else. — Pablo Picasso
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson
There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for… — Glenn Ligon
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere. — Umberto Boccioni
Your style is the way you talk in paint. — Robert Henri
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. — Leonardo da Vinci
My job is to paint what I see, not what I know. — J M W Turner
You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre. — Brian Eno
If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age — Karel Appel
I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and… — Vincent Van Gogh
Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition.… — Bob Ross
If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the… — Pablo Picasso
I paint flowers to prevent them from dying — Frida Kahlo
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that. — Alice Neel
Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant… — Steven Pressfield
When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me. — Pablo Picasso
I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture. — Mac Miller
The way that I like to fight is I like to paint myself into a corner and so the only way is for me to… — Ronda Rousey

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