You Paint Quotes

68 quotes by 63 authors

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded… — Steve Albini
Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it. — Al McGuire
Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing… — Paul Cezanne
Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by meditation. If somebody… — Rajneesh
Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is… — Rajneesh
Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush. — Toni Onley
A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what… — Wynn Bullock
Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens… — Brian Eno
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. — Olive Schreiner
Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship to reality. ...You… — Juan Cole
When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life… — Lindsey Buckingham
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things… — E E Cummings
If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to… — Dogen
When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway. — Winslow Homer
You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of… — Franz Kline
When a seed sprouts, it's a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a… — Michele Cassou
Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint. — Romare Bearden
If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might… — Isaac Slade
The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush. — Igor Babailov

Who Wrote These You Paint Quotes

63 authors contributed a total of 68 You Paint Quotes, led by these top contributors: