Paint Quotes

"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

"What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry"

Laurie Lee, Poet

"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one"

Christopher Plummer, Actor

"In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster"

John O'Neill, Athlete

"An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will"

Willem de Kooning, Artist

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

Maurice Denis, Artist

"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"

Morris Graves, Artist

"See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality"

Keith Haring, Artist

"I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me"

Ralph Allen, Politician

"What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart"

Raoul Dufy, Artist

"I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house"

Willa Ford, Musician

"I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality"

Morris Graves, Artist

"I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else"

Arthur Boyd, Artist

"As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing"

Philip Guston, Artist

"In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?"

Philip Guston, Artist

"I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far"

Ajay Naidu, Actor

"A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence"

Leopold Stokowski, Musician

"Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course"

John Hurt, Actor

"I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance"

Jerry Harrison, Musician

"I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit"

Jack Levine, Artist

"I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head"

Persis Khambatta, Actress

"Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook"

Minnie Driver, Actress

"Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it"

Otto Dix, Artist

"All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time"

Otto Dix, Artist

"When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process"

Lindsey Buckingham, Musician

"Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness"

Barbara Smith, Activist

"Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that"

Steven Soderbergh, Director

"The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets"

Robert Shea, Author

"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"

Rudolph Valentino, Actor

"I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations"

Placido Domingo, Musician

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