Top 100 I Paint Quotes
#1. I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
#2. I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.
Evan Ross
#3. Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.
Erin Morgenstern
#4. 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
#5. I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
Takeshi Kitano
#7. I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist
Leonid Afremov
#8. Some stuff can't be explained... I want to say "To Draw "How I paint" in "How I paint" in "How I paint" in "How I paint" in "How I paint"... (Which will mean a Paint in the Paint)
A seaside...
Deyth Banger
#9. I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
Lucian Freud
#10. I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.
Pierce Brosnan
#11. Why do you paint, Nona?"...
'I paint first to honor God who paints the sunsets and oceans and human hearts. And second, I paint so I don't get cranky like so many of the old people in this world.
Kimberly Stuart
#15. 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
#18. I write what I see; I paint what I am.
Etel Adnan
#19. I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.
Steven Wright
#20. I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials ... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.
Francis Bacon
#21. I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.
Vincent Van Gogh
#22. I paint the darkness and the silence,
You see them as stars and poetry.
Jenim Dibie
#23. Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
Claude Monet
#24. I paint as the mood takes me- it is an emotional release. But in this society moods and images can incriminate you. Writing is much safer for me. I can hide myself behind a maze of words and the details of people's lives.
Ma Jian
#25. I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that's going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen's lavatory.
David Niven
#26. I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work ... The first stage is free, unconscious ... the second stage is carefully calculated.
Joan Miro
#27. I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.
John Dyer
#28. I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.
William Dobell
#29. I choose color on the spur of the moment. People ask me why I paint in red. I do not have the slightest idea. I was painting in blue, then I had a need to paint in red. To be able to interact with the medium, this is the key. There are no sure ways to do art.
Guido Molinari
#30. My work is the art I paint on the canvas of my life. Hopefully I'm creating a masterpiece.
L.R.W. Lee
#32. I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.
Wanda Koop
#33. Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.
Tupac Shakur
#34. Once 'A.N.T. Farm' started, I was inspired by Chyna to jazz up my style. Now I paint my nails bright, fun colors and add a bunch of accessories and some cool shoes to jeans and a T-shirt.
China Anne McClain
#35. 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
#36. I've certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I've never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture.
Alexander McCall Smith
#37. I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.
John Dyer
#38. Their poses are all different but the face is the same. Painted from memory in scene after scene is the fresh-faced beauty. Kate.
It's the bargain I've made with myself. If I can't caress her body with my hands, I paint it with my brushes. Use my fingers to trace her lines.
Amy Plum
#39. I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
Adolph Gottlieb
#40. When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath
Salvador Dali
#41. When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.
Henri Matisse
#42. The most amazing feeling I feel
Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real
Maybe I paint the sky blue
My greatest creation was you.
Jay-Z
#43. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.
Frida Kahlo
#44. Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water
in order to learn how to swim.
Edouard Manet
#45. Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child.
Jean-Francois Millet
#46. Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
John Dyer
#47. I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.
Peter Wright
#48. I adore the elegance of botanical realism but I also can't help but dream of my very own neo-surrealistic fantasy flowers, and so I paint and illustrate both; I always find myself between both of those worlds.
Minnelli Lucy France
#49. I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.
Alice Neel
#51. I don't paint what people expect,
I paint what my heart yearns to express.
Nikki Rowe
#52. I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
Maurice Sendak
#53. My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.
Joan Mitchell
#54. I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.
Leonor Fini
#55. Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally ...
John Newman
#56. When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.
Jeet Aulakh
#58. When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.
Jason Shawn Alexander
#59. I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.
Lucian Freud
#61. I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
Pablo Picasso
#62. I paint with a language I can call my own ... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.
Scott Kahn
#63. My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The figures I paint exist in their own esoteric realm and time, and each painting offers a glimpse into their anomalous world.
Lori Earley
#64. Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
Marie Laurencin
#65. Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.
Richard Schmid
#66. We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.'
Bob Ross
#68. I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
Pablo Picasso
#69. I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Frida Kahlo
#70. A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.
- Must I Paint You a Picture
Billy Bragg
#71. I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take anything that's not necessarily going to be timeless. I want to get across what I feel and I just use the figure because I enjoy the figure.
Jason Shawn Alexander
#72. If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.
Pablo Picasso
#73. Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
Balthus
#74. Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.
Zephyr Teachout
#76. I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
Robert Henri
#77. When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
Henri Matisse
#78. I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.
Hedy Lamarr
#79. I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.
Andy Warhol
#80. You ask me to write you a poem,
I pen you an empty ocean,
You run away.
You ask me who I am,
I paint you a breaking sky,
You weep in the rain.
Jenim Dibie
#81. I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.
Willem De Kooning
#82. I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
Edward Hopper
#83. When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
Yayoi Kusama
#84. All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.
Elizabeth Neel
#85. If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic.
Jose Parla
#86. I paint what I see and not what others like to see.
Edouard Manet
#87. Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#88. I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
David Hockney
#89. I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.
Grace Gealey
#90. I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.
Douglas Lockwood
#91. The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.
Joseph Raffael
#92. The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
Thomas Kinkade
#93. I paint flowers to prevent them from dying
Frida Kahlo
#94. I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.
George Frederic Watts
#95. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.
Ralph E. Reed Jr.
#96. When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.
Pablo Picasso
#97. I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.
Jim Lee
#98. I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.
Frida Kahlo
#99. If I want the day off, the boss never says 'No.' I paint away listening to an iTunes jazz station called KCSM Jazz Radio. It's perfect. Good music and no news traffic or celebrities.
Korky Paul
#100. I hear people talking about the feeling they get when they pain stuff in illegal places. Leo says he gets this fast-moving fear swinging through him, running from his heart to everyplace under his skin. I pain to get the thoughts in me out. I paint so it gets quiet under my skin.
Cath Crowley
