Top 1200 Spray Paint Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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!

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?

...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.

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

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 was never one to paint space, I paint air.

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

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

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.

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.

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

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.

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

Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

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

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

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

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

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.

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

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

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

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

May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while you're still half-asleep. May you spray-paint Rilke poems as graffiti on highway overpasses... My you learn to identify by name 20 flowers, 15 trees, 10 clouds, and one extrasolar planet... May you dream of taking a trip to the moon in a gondola powered by firecrackers and wild swans.

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 don't know why a beauty salon would have a cop's hat and the curling irons are not deadly unless they're still plugged in and they're hot. So I'm not quite sure about that. But I don't know who remembers anymore that you can ignite spray cans, plus there aren't really any spray cans anymore 'cause that was destroying the ozone layer. So I'm - actually, I'll have to go with they chased him with the curling irons.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the same way: Right color, right value, in right spot. There are no prescriptions.

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

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.

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.