Paint Quotes
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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.
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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.
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Why talk when you can paint?
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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
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And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?
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I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.
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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
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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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I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.
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If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
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To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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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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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.
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The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.
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I don't paint, I hit.
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Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
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When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.
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Joy emerges from sorrow, and soars on wings far more beautiful than any earthly analogy can paint.
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If you can't paint, paint Big.
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Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.
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To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.
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I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
