Top 1200 Paint Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.
The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.
A woman without paint is like food without salt.
I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.
My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.
If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.
When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.
I don't really want to get too heavy, you know. I still want to be able to move in the paint.
I shall lie folded like a saint,
Lapped in a scented linen sheet,
On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,
Narrow and cold and neat.
David Hockney is best known for his work with paint and canvas, but he has also worked in media as diverse as Polaroid-photo collage and fax painting.
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
It has been an honor to paint on stage and have my art grace the albums and stage sets of renowned musicians.
I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.
I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much.
I call myself a grasshopper. I paint, I write poetry, and I'm in a band. When it comes to movies and TV, I like to work in everything and with everyone. I wanna do it all, beyond even the screen.
I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.
I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.
The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.
Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.
You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.
Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.
I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.
When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.
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.
We're making so many images today and it's unbelievable. I shoot stuff all the time. I try to figure a lot out before I paint. I do a tremendous amount of shooting.
O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.
Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.
Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.
He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.
As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.
You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.
The Christos-image
is most difficult to disentangle
from its art-craft junk-shop
paint-and-plaster medieval jumble
of pain-worship and death-symbol.
I was always trying to get in the paint and get the easiest shots I can.
To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.
I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.
Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.
I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.
You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun.
In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.
