Paint Quotes

I paint because I love to cut mats.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

Why talk when you can paint?

The more I paint the more I like everything.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

Magic is my paint.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

I want paint to work as flesh.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

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 eye.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

I am not a sentimental person.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

I like to paint nudes mostly.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Paint the essential character of things.

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

I am ridiculously old-fashioned.

I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.