Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing. — Orhan Pamuk
The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan… — Karen DeCrow
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint. — Adolph Gottlieb
I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting. — Abbi Jacobson
I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men. — Fra Angelico
I paint with shapes. — Alexander Calder
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. — Matthew Prior
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. — Danny Kaye
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him… — Ben Shahn
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner… — Morris Graves
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst… — Alice Duer Miller
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness. — Barbara Smith
He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my… — Frida Kahlo
I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or… — Olivier Messiaen
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think… — Thomas Kinkade
I like to paint nudes mostly. — Cleo Moore
I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a… — Mike Thompson
I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might… — Peter Wright
The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or… — Robert Shea
I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about. — Bubba Sparxxx
I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint. — Jim Henson
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us… — Morris Graves
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus. — John Clayton
I want paint to work as flesh. — Lucian Freud

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