Paint Quotes

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

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

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

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.

At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.