Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing… — Paul Cezanne
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance. — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but… — Henry David Thoreau
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When… — Paul Cezanne
When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a… — Claude Monet
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint… — Ann Hood
Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.… — Rajneesh
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an… — Hans Hofmann
Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by meditation. If somebody… — Rajneesh
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long. — Horace
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and… — Michelangelo
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it… — Thomas Willis
I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them. — Paolo Veronese
The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks. — Emil Nolde
We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there. — Bill Laimbeer
That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter. — Bill Laimbeer
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. — Hans Hofmann
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy… — Helen Steiner Rice
Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty… — Bernard Williams

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