Paint Quotes

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

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

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

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

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

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

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.

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

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

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

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

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

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

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

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

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

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

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 give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.