Paint Quotes
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The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.
John Ruskin
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I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart
Raoul Dufy
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Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well.
Ben Eine
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I find it increasingly necessary to express my ideas first in engraving or lithography so that they may develop before I start to paint. Every year my form and expression become more sensitive, and my ideas frequently have to pass through three graphic stages before I can start on the canvas. I can hear you say no, that is impossible because the value of the colors demands quite different treatment from black and white, but it is the inner idea that I try to establish firmly through graphic preparation.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.
Burton Silverman
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When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.
Thomas Eakins
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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
Ethan Hawke
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de Balzac
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I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.
Paul Simonon
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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
Paul Gauguin
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There was such a wonderful setting of the moon this morning, the yellow moon against little pink clouds, and the mountains a pure deep blue viewed from his Swiss farmhouse, quite glorious, I would so have liked to paint. But it was cold, even my window was frozen, although I had kept the fire in all night.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
