Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them.… — Isaac Marion
At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. — Vladimir Nabokov
Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die. — Yoko Ono
That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting,… — Joni Mitchell
How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them.… — Henry Rollins
A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You… — Cinda Williams Chima
Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job. — Richelle Mead
I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you… — Chuck Palahniuk
He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward. — Tanith Lee
Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just… — Alan Rickman
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every… — Francine Prose
The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining… — Anne Carson
Love demands patience, desire is restless; What color shall I paint the heart, until you savage it? You shall not ignore me when the time… — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
…* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting… — Sylvia Plath
The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping… — Charles de Lint
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. — Chuck Palahniuk
Peeta crouches down on the other side of her and strokes her hair. When he begins to speak in a soft voice, it seems almost… — Suzanne Collins
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Staring at him the way she might stare at a beloved place she was not sure she would ever see again, trying to commit the… — Cassandra Clare
In the center was a tiny handprint in red paint. — J R Ward
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove. — Ralph Ellison
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only… — H P Lovecraft
It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red. Red. Dozens… — Lauren Oliver
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. — Seth Godin
I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood. — Cassandra Clare

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