Paint Quotes

"I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them"

"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"

Dino De Laurentiis, Director

"Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither"

Jasper Johns, Artist

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

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"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"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"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"

Ben Shahn, Artist

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

Balthus, Artist

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

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"You cannot sit down and write about your own paintings. You have to paint them. That's the only way to express what you really feel"

Odd Nerdrum, Painter

"I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness"

David Bromstad, Designer

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

Caspar David Friedrich, Artist

"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions"

Thomas Couture, Artist

"I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off"

Mike Thompson, Politician

"The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard"

Pharrell Williams, Musician

"Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about"

Bubba Sparxxx, Musician

"The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business"

Thomas Kinkade, Artist

"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"

Josef Albers, Artist

"There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug"

Edouard Manet, Artist

"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

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

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"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!"

Kelly Osbourne, Actress

"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around"

Chuck Close, Artist

"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"

Majel Barrett, Actress

"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"

Camille Pissarro, Artist

"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"

Dougray Scott, Actor

"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"

Keith Haring, Artist

"I like to paint nudes mostly"

Cleo Moore, Actress

"The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space"

Maxfield Parrish, Artist

"I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none"

Olivier Messiaen, Composer

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

Willem de Kooning, Artist

"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"

Philip Guston, Artist

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