Paint Quotes

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.

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

I want paint to work as flesh.

I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

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.

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

I paint because I love to cut mats.

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.