Paint Quotes
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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 -
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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Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.
Charlotte Moss -
You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.
Alex Katz -
If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.
Eugene Delacroix -
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
Vincent Van Gogh -
If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
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My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.
Vincent Van Gogh -
In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
Vincent Van Gogh -
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 -
I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
Amanda Lee Williford -
If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.
Keali'i Reichel -
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.
William S. Burroughs
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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 -
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale -
PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.
William Lyon Phelps -
If you're not a full-time missionary with a missionary badge pinned on your coat, now is the time to paint one on your heart-painted, as Paul said, 'not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God.'
Neil L. Andersen -
If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.
Cecil Rhodes -
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
Morris Graves
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Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.
Thomas Kinkade -
Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.
Steve Albini Big Black -
Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.
Luke Hemmings -
The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'
William Shatner