Paint Quotes

• If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

  

  N. C. Wyeth
  • Men
  • Paint
  • Over You

• See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Transcending

• He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Color
  • Paint
  • Grind

• 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

• Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Paint
  • Marriages
  • Wooing

• Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Color
  • Humble
  • Make

• Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Paint
  • Lifetime
  • Zaandam

• Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

  

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
  • Paint
  • Canvas
  • Broadcaster

• I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

  

  Burt Young
  • Paint

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

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Sea
  • Paint
  • Splash

• I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.

  

  Will Barnet
  • Dark
  • Working
  • Works

• I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Film
  • Wall
  • Paint

• ...Michelangelo was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.

  

  El Greco
  • Paint
  • Good Men
  • Michelangelo

• I think about the period of, like, the '70s and early '80s where nobody had money to make big movies and there was no CGI or anything like that and people had to get super creative. And then, you know, when you've got somebody who can paint you any picture on a computer and you get hundreds of millions of dollars to make a movie, its almost like the creativity diminishes somewhat.

  

  Ethan Suplee
  • Money
  • Movies
  • Creative

• 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

• I use pure acetone Nail Polish Remover from Nails Inc. to really strip the nail. It's actually important to dehydrate your nail a little bit to get rid of all of the oil before you put color on; then the color will really stick. Then, I use OPI Bond Aid. It's a liquid dehydrator that you paint onto each nail.

  

  Eva Chen
  • Stick
  • Nail
  • Removers

• What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Paint
  • Draw
  • George Bernard Shaw

• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Gold
  • Ridiculous
  • Excess

• 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

• Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

  

  Arthur Rackham
  • Paint
  • Sunny
  • Sundial

• I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking for. That's really what matters.

  

  Autumn de Forest
  • Matters
  • Vibe
  • Caustic

• During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint." I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Paint
  • Minute
  • Hang On

• PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Mind
  • Beautiful
  • Wall

• People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • People
  • Gay
  • Theorist

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