Paint Quotes

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

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

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

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.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

I paint abstract expressions.

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

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

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

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

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.