Paint Quotes

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

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

"I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots"

James Cameron, Director

"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

"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint"

Tony Curtis, Actor

"My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily"

David Hasselhoff, Actor

"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

"So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"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"

Edward Koch, Politician

"What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"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"

William Wiley, Soldier

"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"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"I paint with shapes"

Alexander Calder, Sculptor

"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"

Bryan Singer, Director

"Its human actions paint the chart of time"

James Montgomery, Poet

"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"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens"

Grandma Moses, Artist

"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene"

Grandma Moses, Artist

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

Larry Wall, Author

"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

"He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore"

Jane Birkin, Actress

"Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future"

H. R. Giger, Artist

"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"

Grandma Moses, Artist

"It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are"

Tony Curtis, Actor

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

Ron Wood, Musician

"The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it"

Mark Russell, Writer

"I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus"

John Clayton

"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas"

Paul Samuelson, Economist

"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"

Paul Kane, Writer

"I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do"

Richard Price, Writer

"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive"

Man Ray, Photographer

"I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

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

George Edward Moore, Philosopher

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

Kiana Tom, Model

"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

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