Paint Quotes

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

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.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

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

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.