Top 1200 Paint Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.
Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.
Some useful advice for all of my Asian-American brothers and sisters - never go paint-balling with a Vietnam veteran.
If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'
I was influenced by people like David Fincher and William Friedkin, and these directors who kinda paint their films with these dark shades.
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.
As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.
The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.
Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.
The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.
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.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.
It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.
I like to hunt and fish, read and paint and play golf. And I can have a good time doing nothing. And, of course: be with my family.
I don't think the Lakers could control Tony Parker's ability to get into the paint, so his health is the key for San Antonio.
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.
Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.
I wouldn't say even that I'm a broadly political person. But on occasion, I have felt that I have no choice but to paint something with a strong moral stance.
You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by Michael Jackson. And he requested that I paint his portrait.
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.
Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.
My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.
My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
You’re really not right, are you? Yeah, I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but chromosomally damaging. (Nick)
I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.
If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.
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.
Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.
I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.
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.
Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in my real life.
Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.
When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist
The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
I didn't know that buying expensive paint was a good thing and important. I always used whatever is cheapest, which I'm into, too.
If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.
Paint and new flooring are simple refreshers. But it's not worth it to update all the kitchen cabinets if it's still the same bad layout.
I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.
