Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously. — Jonathan Lethem
If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me — Norah Jones
You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that… — Pablo Picasso
Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected… — Tori Amos
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic,… — Roy Lichtenstein
This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm… — Banksy
The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him,… — Caspar David Friedrich
Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will:… — Aleister Crowley
Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone. — Henri Matisse
To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream,… — Monica Drake
Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that… — Euell Gibbons
A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too — Rembrandt
It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the… — Nancy Werlin
You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it — Faith Ringgold
Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has… — Robert Pinsky
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina… — Andy Warhol
There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out. — Robert Plant
I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen. — Mati Klarwein
Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous incremental… — Michael E. Mann
If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week! — L. S. Lowry
It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye. — Elizabeth Streb
I saw the industrial scene and I was affected by it. I tried to paint it all the time. I tried to paint the industrial… — L. S. Lowry
I could cut silhouettes almost as soon as I could manage to hold a pair of scissors. I could paint, too, and read, and recite;… — Lotte Reiniger
After a thousand watercolors you will find you have fallen in love with paper and paint. — Rex Brandt

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