Paint Quotes
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There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.
Arnold Friberg
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He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
J. G. Holland
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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
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I spilt paint all over the bar, they almost fired me.
James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold
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If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
Karel Appel
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If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.
Eugene Delacroix
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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
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The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
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I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.
Jack White The White Stripes
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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
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The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
Seth Godin
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I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.
Alexej von Jawlensky
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures.
Salvador Dali
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If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
Willem de Kooning
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
Francis Bacon
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Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.
Paul Lynde
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I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
Amanda Lee Williford
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Willem de Kooning
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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
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I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.
El Greco
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Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
Arthur Rackham
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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
Terry Brooks
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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
Pablo Picasso
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My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.
Georges Rouault