Paint Quotes

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

I paint with shapes.

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

I can paint in jail.

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.