Paint Quotes

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

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

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

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

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

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

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

I can paint in jail.

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

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

Why talk when you can paint?

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

And this is why the defense is going to try to paint my brother out to be a drug addict and he was very dependent on drugs, and it's not true. Because how could someone be dependent on drugs since 2008, he was dancing four hours a day and he had a five-year plan of starting a new life.

Magic is my paint.

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.