Paint Quotes
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Don't be afraid to paint the world with your most favorite colors.
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Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.
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There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
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The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.
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Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.
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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
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The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.
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Vasari has been a trusted friend on my painting journey for the last 12 years. Vasari is hands down the best oil paint on the market thanks to its unique hues, handling properties, purity and density of pigment.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach; so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.
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Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.
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How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.
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When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.
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I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics
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Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.
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Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in one's work.
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Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional.
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I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.
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Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.
