Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and… — Camille Pissarro
Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist. — Hiroko Sakai
Come into my lap and sit in the center of your soul. Drink the living waters of memory and give birth to yourself. What you… — Meinrad Craighead
What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity… — Ian Hornak
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can… — Keegan-Michael Key
I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from… — Bill Viola
Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint,… — Janet Fitch
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can. — Jean-Jacques Annaud
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. — Robert Breault
The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded,… — C.S. Lewis
Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really… — M. Night Shyamalan
I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable. He's not a… — Joseph Bruce
Keep evolving. Keep reading plays, doing plays, but also be sure to expand your horizons as much as possible. You only have yourself to bring… — Gideon Glick
And every dew-drop paints a bow. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. — Horace
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would… — James Whistler
Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass. — James Whistler
It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to… — James Whistler
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when… — James Whistler
Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands. — Winston Churchill
Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you… — Winston Churchill
I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment. — Winston Churchill
A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint. — Winston Churchill

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