Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures… — Emily Dickinson
I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me. — Ralph Allen
The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those… — Will Rogers
If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt,… — BrenÃ© Brown
People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their… — Tony Robbins
Man creates what he is, man creates himself. The meaning has to be created. You have to sing your meaning, you have to dance your… — Rajneesh
My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but… — David Salle
It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it. — Joe Bradley
I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over… — Robert Draper
It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't… — Alice Neel
Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have… — Alice Neel
I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me. — Alice Neel
No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another. — Joseph Plaskett
Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been… — Joseph Plaskett
I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed. — Burton Silverman
I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the… — Burton Silverman
I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure,… — Janice Tanton
I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces. — Frederick Varley
Don't paint the apple; paint the red. — Arthur Lismer
Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything... the moonlight had colour,… — Arthur Lismer
If you follow the process of a thought - any thought, not just about art - the thought changes. It has to do with what… — Ross Bleckner
Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker. — Georg Baselitz
Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang!… — Anthony Caro
It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense of itself, which… — Giorgio de Chirico
An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception… — Morris Graves

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