Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself. — Benjamin Franklin
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool… — William Blake
Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must… — Thomas Hood
I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I… — Maurice Sendak
If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and… — Pablo Picasso
To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. — Samuel Johnson
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor… — Pablo Picasso
If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary. — Pablo Picasso
I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green… — Pablo Picasso
Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should… — Edvard Munch
I only feel, but want the power to paint. — Juvenal
In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint. — Vincent Van Gogh
It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see -… — Vincent Van Gogh
I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint. — Marge Piercy
There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things… — Ernest Hemingway
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered… — Jean Cocteau
Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every… — Henri Matisse
When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint… — Henri Matisse
What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my… — Edgar Degas
If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh,… — Edgar Degas
I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it. — Andy Warhol
Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe
I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults… — Georgia O'Keeffe
What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new… — Georges Braque
It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible. — Georges Braque

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