Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy. — Bruno Tonioli
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more… — Galina Vishnevskaya
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These… — C.S. Lewis
There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the… — Vance Havner
If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take… — Diana Loomans
When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you… — Julie Mehretu
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain. — Erin Morgenstern
I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would… — Erin Morgenstern
Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light,… — John Hurt
When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to… — Gerhard Richter
A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater objectivity… — Gerhard Richter
Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it has… — Gerhard Richter
When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel… — Gerhard Richter
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful,… — Gerhard Richter
But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000,… — Gerhard Richter
There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for… — Gerhard Richter
The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only… — Gerhard Richter
I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was never… — Gerhard Richter
Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these problems can only… — Gerhard Richter
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint. — Gerhard Richter
I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all. — Gerhard Richter
Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my… — Pablo Picasso
Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark. — Allison Mackie
I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain… — William Morris Hunt
It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you… — Tony Curtis

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