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

"I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking"

John Dyer, Artist

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

Rene Magritte, Artist

"Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire"

John Dyer, Artist

"I paint what I see, not what a camera would see"

John Dyer, Artist

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

Olive Schreiner, Writer

"I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work"

John Dyer, Artist

"I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers"

John Dyer, Artist

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

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"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

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

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"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

"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

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

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

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

Robert Indiana, 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

"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

"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

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

Larry Wall, Author

"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

"If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"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

"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"

Robert Fulghum, Author

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

Paul Klee, Artist

"Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?"

Ron Wood, Musician

"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

"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

"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

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine"

Matthew Prior, Poet

"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

"I paint abstract expressions"

Billy Zane, Actor

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

Alan Moore, Writer

"Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing"

Russell Banks, Author

"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

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