Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of… — Viggo Mortensen
It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own… — Viggo Mortensen
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. — Grandma Moses
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history… — Grandma Moses
I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people. — Grandma Moses
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready… — Grandma Moses
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. — Edvard Munch
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. — Edvard Munch
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. — Ajay Naidu
A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. — Chester W. Nimitz
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. — Georgia O'Keeffe
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. — Georgia O'Keeffe
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself,… — Georgia O'Keeffe
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I… — Georgia O'Keeffe
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. — Norman Vincent Peale
I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along… — Rick Perry
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. — Pablo Picasso
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. — Pablo Picasso
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. — Pablo Picasso
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? — Pablo Picasso
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? — Pablo Picasso
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. — Pablo Picasso
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to… — Pablo Picasso
Every good painter paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock

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