Paint Quotes: Inspiring Words for Artists and Creatives (Page 2)

"I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously"

"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!"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint"

Michelangelo, Artist

"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"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"Life obliges me to do something, so I paint"

Rene Magritte, Artist

"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

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

Robert Indiana, Artist

"I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper"

Olive Schreiner, Writer

"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"

Frida Kahlo, Painter

"I paint my own reality. 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"

Frida Kahlo, Painter

"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality"

Frida Kahlo, Painter

"The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks"

Emil Nolde, Artist

"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul"

Emily Carr, Artist

"But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?"

James Thomson, Musician

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'"

John Hench, Artist

"We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films"

Alan Moore, Writer

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

Paul Klee, Artist

"Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

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

Martin Mull, Actor

"I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"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"

Martin Mull, Actor

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

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"I paint as if I were Rothschild"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I want paint to work as flesh"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"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"

Fred Thompson, Politician

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

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"I still love a lot of the guys who just paint"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs"

Charlie Hunnam, Actor

"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new"

Donald Judd, Artist

"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly"

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

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