Paints Quotes

166 quotes by 141 authors

Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas. — Swami Vivekananda
How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled! — Thomas Hood
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art,… — Allan Nevins
History paints the human heart. — Napoleon Bonaparte
How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread. — Gerhard Richter
To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream,… — Monica Drake
If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week! — L. S. Lowry
When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead. — George D. Prentice
Rhetoric paints with a broad brush. — George Carlin
When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic. — John Ruskin
The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your memâ€™ries, Picasso your dreams. — Robert Breault
Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story. — W. Somerset Maugham
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to… — David Hume
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. — Otto Dix
My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out. — Caio Fonseca
And every dew-drop paints a bow. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. — Horace
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would… — James Whistler
Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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