Paint Quotes

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I think that there was a lot of undisclosed money that came into South Dakota, driving a message to paint me as a Washington partisan, which I don't believe that I am, but it was a message that resonated, after pounding it away for a number of weeks.

I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.