Paint Quotes

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

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

Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

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

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

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

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

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 and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

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

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!