Paint Quotes
-
The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.
Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
-
I never draw except with brush and paint.
Claude Monet
-
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
-
Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
-
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
Claude Monet
-
He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
J. G. Holland
-
...Michelangelo was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.
El Greco
-
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
-
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Willem de Kooning
-
I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.
Burt Young
-
I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
Nan Goldin
-
When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
Salvador Dali
-
If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache
N. C. Wyeth
-
It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all these guys. Why waste your time, because most likely you're not going to be on that level anyway.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
-
I spilt paint all over the bar, they almost fired me.
James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold
-
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
-
You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.
Alex Katz
-
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
-
The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
Eric Maisel
-
PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.
William Lyon Phelps
-
To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?
Remy de Gourmont
-
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
-
I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.
Margaret Keane
-
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