Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving… — Jackson Pollock
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like… — Steve Prefontaine
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead… — Steve Prefontaine
An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news… — Josh Radnor
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were… — Robert Rauschenberg
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. — Man Ray
In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk… — Tom Robbins
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is… — Mark Rothko
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. — Henri Rousseau
Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually… — Paul Ryan
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. — Paul Samuelson
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact… — Jose Saramago
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. — John Singer Sargent
I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2… — Adam Savage
Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending… — Charles Schumer
I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around… — Maurice Sendak
Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can… — Jane Seymour
The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say,… — William Shatner
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have… — Ed Sheeran
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at… — Grace Slick
The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple,… — Grace Slick
I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who… — Iain Duncan Smith
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. — Gertrude Stein
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. — Gertrude Stein

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