Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

One never paints violently enough. — Eugene Delacroix
There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in… — Eugene Delacroix
Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to… — Eugene Delacroix
If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them. — Cennino Cennini
I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like. — J M W Turner
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want? — Oriana Fallaci
Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. — Oliver Cromwell
When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up… — Maurice de Vlaminck
I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way… — Emily Carr
My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with… — Emily Carr
It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence. — Emily Carr
Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint. — Emily Carr
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush. — Daniel Dennett
No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with. — John Singer Sargent
The thicker you paint, the more it flows. — John Singer Sargent
It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their… — William Morris Hunt
The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens… — Pierre Bonnard
I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life. — Peter Cushing
You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish… — Morris Graves
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far… — Morris Graves

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