Top 1200 Paint Brushes Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

My brushes, my cameras, and my willingness to use them.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered.

My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

There is never a question of what to paint but only how to paint.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!

...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against; show them what you’re for.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes.

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

If you've never mixed paint, you aren't going to be able to paint properly.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.

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

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.

Sometimes I seem to be two people. One who does not paint and one who does. The one who does not paint assumes that the one who does can paint anything. The one who is the painter sometimes finds it difficult to live up to that faith.

Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can.

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

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

I was never one to paint space, I paint air.

You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.

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

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

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.

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

My goal with the makeup line was that you wouldn't have to use brushes. Fingers are my favorite thing.

Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

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?

I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.

I've been very lucky with the people I've met over the years. Way back in the early '70s I went to [Phil] Seuling's conventions for something like three years in a row from '70 to '72 and I remember at the '72 luncheon with the Academy of Comic Book Artists and talking with John Romita about the kind of brushes he used. Pros ask pros the same questions that fans do. "What kind of pens do you use? What kind of brushes do you use?" I was so amazed that the wonderful work John Romita was doing was accomplished with a Windsor-Newton series 7 Number 4. Not a 2 or a 3, but a 4.

Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

Enthusiasm brushes off upon those with whom you come in contact.

I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by meditation. If somebody is a painter and he starts meditating, his painting will have a sudden jump, it will become tremendously profound - because whatsoever you paint reflects your mind. If the mind goes deeper, your painting will go deeper. You paint your mind. What else can you paint? You paint yourself.