Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was… — Annie Dillard
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh… — William Shakespeare
You know, you hear about these movements for women, and for children, and for people who are any race but white, and you think that… — Alex Sanchez
Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to… — Jeanette Winterson
Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone. — Cornelia Funke
Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams. — Azar Nafisi
all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil… — Truman Capote
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world… — Chuck Palahniuk
Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. — Haruki Murakami
She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw… — Jodi Picoult
I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the… — Janet Fitch
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if… — Pablo Picasso
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such… — Charlotte Bronte
My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A… — Maira Kalman
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than… — Vincent Van Gogh
Paint what you like and die happy — Henry Miller
I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a… — Irving Stone
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts… — Karen Marie Moning
The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night.… — Dorothy Parker
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which… — W. Somerset Maugham
This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire. — Chuck Palahniuk
No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the… — David Wroblewski
I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings... — David Bowie

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