Top 270 Paints Quotes & Sayings

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

oil paints...the look of licked lips.

Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.

Every picture one paints involves not painting others.

The way Ben Gibbard paints a picture, you feel like, 'I was there that day with him.' You really feel the way he paints pictures and speaks and talks. It's almost like talk-singing. Paul Simon does that very well as well. He's a huge influence of mine.

The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages.

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

A friend of mine says his two favorite artists are Picasso and Rembrandt. Picasso because he paints the beautiful in such an ugly fashion. And Rembrandt because he paints the ugly so beautifully.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

The mind paints before the brush.

Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'

Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

Every good painter paints what he is.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!

Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

History paints the human heart.

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

The soul paints itself in our machines.

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.

I'm not some kind of machine that paints pictures.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

One never paints violently enough.

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

One paints with one's head, not one's hand.

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

An artist paints his own reality.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.