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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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
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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
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If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.
Cecil Rhodes
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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
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You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.
William S. Burroughs
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It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.
Andrew McDermott
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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
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Ultimately, it doesn't matter to the world whether you paint or dance or write. The world will probably get by without the product of your efforts. But that is not the point. The point is what the inner process of following your creative impulses will do to you. It is clearly about process. Love the work, love the process. Our fascination will pull our attention forward. That, also, will fascinate the viewer.
J. M. Roberts
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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 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
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I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
Amanda Lee Williford
