Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring. — Dogen
I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls... — Meher Baba
When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you… — Meher Baba
I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality. — Meher Baba
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even… — Willem de Kooning
The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind. — Okakura Kakuzo
Every picture one paints involves not painting others. — Robert Motherwell
If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good,… — Robert Motherwell
It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a… — Robert Motherwell
If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to… — Robert Motherwell
Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject. — Robert Motherwell
Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints... — Joni Mitchell
With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. — Joni Mitchell
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't… — Robert Henri
I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive. — Robert Henri
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. — Frank Capra
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the… — Paul Theroux
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing. — Irving Stone
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can… — Paul Cezanne
Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel. — Ben Shahn
If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too. — Edouard Manet
Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy. — John Constable
What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint. — Joyce Cary
Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh. — Eugene Delacroix

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