Paint Quotes

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

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

I paint with shapes.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

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.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

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 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 wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

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

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.