Paint Quotes
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
Bam Margera -
Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
Fernando Botero
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I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
Taylor Swift -
I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
Abbi Jacobson -
I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
Fareed Zakaria -
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
Olga Kurylenko -
Paint the essential character of things.
Camille Pissarro -
I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.
Amrita Sher-Gil
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I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I do have a dream, a tableau of the bathing place of La Grenouillère, for which I've done some bad pochades (sketches), but it is a dream. Renoir, who have just spent a couple of months here, also wants to paint this subject.
Claude Monet -
The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don't stand back and wonder what it is. That's Jim Morrison, that's a panda, that's a scene on the West Coast. It's not abstract.
Grace Slick Starship -
My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.
Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC -
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
Socrates
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A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.
Paul Gauguin -
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann -
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
Man Ray -
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
Pablo Picasso -
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
Yayoi Kusama -
Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.
William Blake
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Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.
John Chamberlain -
If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!
Rudyard Kipling -
When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.
Mark Steyn