Paint Quotes

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
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Claude Monet
- Way
- Paint
- Bird Sings

Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.

KAWS
- People
- Artists
- Careers
Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

Norman Reedus
- Want
- Actor
- Paint
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

William S. Burroughs
- Writing
- Art
- Helping
It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

Kate Jackson
- Artist
- Paint
- Become
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
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

Auguste Renoir