Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to… — Pete Seeger
I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is… — Michael Gungor
So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff - that I scraped… — Allison Mackie
I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid. — Tyne Daly
When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to… — Uell Stanley Andersen
Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die. — Winston Churchill
... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It… — Winston Churchill
Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach… — Robert Breault
How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled! — Thomas Hood
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may… — Winston Churchill
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood,… — Andreas Feininger
I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint,… — Jimmy Santiago Baca
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art,… — Allan Nevins
History paints the human heart. — Napoleon Bonaparte
And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at… — Herman Melville
A brush of kindness can paint a smile on a face. — Robert M. Hensel
How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread. — Gerhard Richter
My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this… — Jacob Lawrence
As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at… — Anselm Kiefer
PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures. — William Lyon Phelps
To make films is as boring as watching paint dry. You usually have to do tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for… — Jenny Agutter
I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house. — Willa Ford
Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint… — Jane Austen
I'd tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint. — Bat for Lashes
You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you… — Sol LeWitt

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