Paints Quotes

166 quotes by 148 authors

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints. — A. S. Byatt
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men. — Eugene Delacroix
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This… — Julia Cameron
Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work. — Alexander Pope
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock
The mind paints before the brush. — James Ellis
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. — Eugenio Montale
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. — Peter Max
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When… — Paul Cezanne
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and… — Michelangelo
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy… — Helen Steiner Rice
Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions. — Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other… — Herwarth Walden
When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our… — Erwin McManus
I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture. — Rachel Bilson
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry. — Man Ray

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