Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her… — Thomas Browne
When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation. — Pablo Picasso
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. — Edvard Munch
... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on… — Wallace Stegner
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity. — Tertullian
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and… — David Hume
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to… — David Hume
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint,… — Irving Stone
I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies. — Edouard Manet
So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame… — Sam Kinison
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories. — Jonah Lehrer
At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where… — Rose McGowan
When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up. — Rita Ora
The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In… — Brian Jacques
Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics,… — Dino De Laurentiis
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit. — Jack Levine
As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you… — Jake Owen
I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just… — Albert Oehlen
I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right… — Todd Phillips
When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots. — Edward Ruscha
A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the… — Taiye Selasi
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? — Alexander McCall Smith
I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I… — Andy Summers
I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths. — John Lurie

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