Paint Quotes
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He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
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I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
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Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
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There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
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If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
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The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.
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Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.
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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
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It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.
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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.
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There's something so inspiring about being in real locations, where you can feel the tactile qualities from the layer of paint that has been chipping off and the hundreds of years that have been lived in the space.
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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
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Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions.
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather watch paint drying. But put me in a room with three people having a hard time, like a character situation, and then you're into a really intense portraiture kind of concept.
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When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
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If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.
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Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.
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I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.
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In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
