Paints Quotes

166 quotes by 141 authors

I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green… — Pablo Picasso
What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my… — Edgar Degas
It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible. — Georges Braque
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we… — Stephane Mallarme
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist… — Neil Gaiman
When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the… — Dogen
The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind. — Okakura Kakuzo
Every picture one paints involves not painting others. — Robert Motherwell
Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints... — Joni Mitchell
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing. — Irving Stone
One never paints violently enough. — Eugene Delacroix
There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in… — Eugene Delacroix
The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens… — Pierre Bonnard
When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time… — Wassily Kandinsky
When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those… — Aristide Maillol
My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like… — Charles Mingus
No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a… — John Newman
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with… — Walter J. Phillips
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. — John Greenleaf Whittier
My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but… — David Salle

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