Paint Quotes

• I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Believe
  • Rich
  • Duty

• When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Sea
  • Paint
  • Splash

• What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Paint
  • Brushes

• Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Paint
  • Target
  • Arrow

• It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.

  

  Andrew McDermott
  • Think
  • Paint

• Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

  

  William Merritt Chase
  • Trying
  • Distinguished
  • Grandiose

• I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Giving
  • Wish
  • Quality

• I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it.

  

  Wolfgang Beltracchi
  • Paint
  • Courses
  • Leonardo

• I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right.

  

  Burton Silverman
  • People
  • World
  • Passion

• I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Religious
  • Cat
  • Superstitious

• I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Air
  • Beauty
  • Surrounds

• Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Children
  • Paint
  • Chips

• Part of what I'm about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

  

  Alex Katz
  • Different
  • Same
  • Paint

• If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Green
  • Paint
  • Britney Spears

• When I feel tired and discouraged and I lie down on the sofa, then I think of the simplest thing I can – a piece of string – and I go in it and paint it. That's the way to keep painting – to create something inside that makes you want to recreate it.

  

  Arshile Gorky
  • Tired
  • Paint
  • Recreate

• Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Experience
  • Kind
  • Artist

• If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Country
  • Paint
  • Fought

• We defended him as hard as we could; but he made a lot of tough shots in the paint against us.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Hard
  • Tough
  • Against

• About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Work
  • Paint
  • Impressionism

• I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Play
  • Paint
  • Concepts

• I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Paint
  • Pressures
  • Patrons

• My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Spirit

• You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

  

  Alex Katz
  • Paint
  • Scared
  • Masterpiece

• He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Color
  • Paint
  • Grind

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