Paint Quotes

• I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.

  

  Albert Oehlen
  • Why
  • Control
  • Reason

• All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Children
  • Ability
  • Geniuses

• Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Face
  • Paint
  • Arguing

• I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

  

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue
  • Eyes
  • Paint
  • Photographs

• You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Empty
  • Backgrounds
  • Bullshit

• Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Tree
  • Paint
  • Dollars

• When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.

  

  Galarrwuy Yunupingu
  • Responsibilities
  • Ceremony
  • Demonstrate

• It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Danger
  • Paint
  • Treading

• I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

  

  Joni Mitchell
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Sing

• I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself. Spray paint is impossible. They say it takes a decade to really learn spray paint and be good with it. I've been at it about ten years now and am now really just getting good and confident with it.

  

  Alec Monopoly
  • Teacher
  • Confident
  • Spray

• You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Picture
  • Breasts
  • Nude

• Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Laughing
  • Inches
  • Chamber

• I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Portraiture

• I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Paint
  • Mouth
  • Hoped

• As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar to making music to me now, at least as far as my brain is concerned.

  

  Black Francis Pixies
  • Music
  • Brain
  • Solitary

• In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.

  

  Owen Wister
  • Car
  • Firsts
  • Class

• Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Picture
  • Paint

• I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.

  

  Morris Graves
  • Reality
  • Paint
  • Symbols

• the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Gift
  • Jazz
  • Plays

• People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Angst

• The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

  

  Edward Burne-Jones
  • Soul
  • Angel
  • Immortality

• I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Paint
  • Carry
  • Transforms

• I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Black
  • Mean
  • Enough

• Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Story
  • Paint
  • Nervous System

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