Paint Quotes

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

I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

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

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

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.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.