Paint Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.

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.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

'Tis human actions paint the chart of time.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

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.

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.