Top 100 Paint Quotes
#1. Life loves to take your perfect plans and dump a bucket of paint on them. It's your choice to call it garbage or make something beautiful of it.
Stephanie Erickson
#2. There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.
Jorge Garcia
#3. The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories - or you can use it to paint dreams.
Robert Breault
#5. Dear Nancy,
I love your book The Crystal Navigator. You paint beautiful imagery throughout the pages of the story, and I loved learning about art through the adventures of Lucy. I'm honored to be one of the first readers of your wonderful story,
Sincerely,
Sylvie" (11 years old)
Sylvie
#6. I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached it from a physical standpoint, but I've also been honing my compositional eye through film.
Billy Zane
#7. 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.
Bono
#8. It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable ... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities ... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.
Morris Graves
#9. Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
Henri Matisse
#10. When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
James Rosenquist
#11. 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
#12. If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#13. I wanted to design the house around my body and my needs, instead of following the pattern that I'd fallen into in my big house: picking paint colors and finishing the woodwork with some future owner and salability in mind. This was going to be my house.
Dee Williams
#14. Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.
Peggy Guggenheim
#15. The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more ... with a method linked only to my thought ... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.
Pablo Picasso
#16. As I listened to the radio tell her story, it was hard to not think education should look more like this - paint splotches and messy smocks in a cramped studio - and less like large lecture halls with passive students parked in seats for ninety minutes at a time, eyes glued to a slide presentation.
Jeff Goins
#17. He had always looked at the world and seen it in a thousand different colors, his fingers itching to paint each turn of light, each curl of the wind sweeping through the silver streets.
Every shade was unique in Valen's eyes.
And yet... he was losing colors, too.
Sasha Alsberg
#18. I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings ...
David Bowie
#19. You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun.
Julia De Burgos
#20. I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.
Bryan Singer
#21. The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece. Vittoria
Dan Brown
#23. A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.
- Must I Paint You a Picture
Billy Bragg
#24. Directing is kind of like acting through other people. You see moments and you see things and if you don't see the actors hit it, you paint in those little spaces and tell them what direction to go in.
Malik Yoba
#26. Paint your life with the colors of kindness so that you may find the true bliss of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Paint in blue and black ... sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ...
John Geddes
#29. I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.
Paul Simonon
#30. He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
Horace
#31. 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
#32. Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.
John C. Maxwell
#33. I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
Claude Monet
#34. If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
#35. Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.
Steven Tyler
#36. After a thousand watercolors you will find you have fallen in love with paper and paint.
Rex Brandt
#37. Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
Raymond Arroyo
#38. Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso
#39. Reading takes you places; it is all up to your imagination. The world (or in this case book) is your canvas, go paint it.
BOB
#40. Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.
Claude Monet
#41. The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#42. Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.
Grandma Moses
#43. 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
#45. One of the things I liked about her [Dorothy] was that she had long fingernails that she would carefully manicure and paint to fit her mood. If she were in a happy mood, her nails would be bright red. If she were feeling like she wanted to eviscerate her mother she would paint her nails burgundy.
Augusten Burroughs
#46. 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
#47. I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
Gary Hume
#48. I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
Alice Duer Miller
#49. I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.
Gustav Klimt
#50. I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.
Bill Viola
#51. My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!
Emily Carr
#52. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.
Donald Trump
#53. A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work.
Joseph Alleine
#54. We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.'
Bob Ross
#55. If I were a pattern, I would be the pattern of paint that a bird would make if you dipped a bird's wings in watercolour and then set the bird loose inside a paper lantern. I'm pretty sure that's it!
C. JoyBell C.
#56. Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
Banksy
#57. The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.
George Bancroft
#58. Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.
Winston Churchill
#59. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
Philip Guston
#60. My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.
Augusten Burroughs
#61. I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint.
D.A. Paul
#62. People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.
Lee Krasner
#63. You don't create or write to be successful; you don't create or paint to be famous or to increase your wealth. You do all of these things because your soul is calling you to do them.
Kelly Martin
#64. When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
Yayoi Kusama
#65. They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
Iggy Azalea
#66. To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.
Lin Yutang
#67. Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.
Richard Schmid
#68. I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.
Francis Bacon
#69. She was all about the present. Paint and blood and lust. The now.
Danika Stone
#70. The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
Louise Hay
#71. As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.
Max Cannon
#72. She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.
Jodi Picoult
#73. A coat of paint and a quote of words both make cosmetic differences.
Amit Abraham
#74. I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.
Caitlin Moran
#75. It was as though the world had had a fresh coat of paint, and every heart acquired a store of illusions that made the burden of life less hard to bear.
Gabriel Chevallier
#76. Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
Marie Laurencin
#77. Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered ... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.
Marilyn Monroe
#78. I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.
Joaquin Sorolla
#79. When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.
Pablo Picasso
#80. Novices in the arts think you have to start with inspiration to write or paint or compose. In fact, you only have to start. Inspiration comes if you continue. Make the commitment to sit still in solitude several hours a day and inevitably your muse will visit.
Erica Jong
#81. I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
Arthur Boyd
#82. 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
#83. Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.
Oliver Cromwell
#84. As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits ... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them ... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.
David Cobley
#85. I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.
Lana Del Rey
#86. Magic Words"
"Silly words cause trills
because they're ludicrous and funny.
Happy words paint endless smiles
and swallow troubles whole.
Thoughtful words are thus
because they make the day feel sunny.
But hurtful words are such
that pierce the heart and weigh the soul.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#87. Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
Kabir
#88. I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.
Tony Kaye
#89. The past isn't always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.
Laura Miller
#90. You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.
Mark Gonzales
#91. The minute you start getting in trouble, you can't try to do new stuff. You can't try to make a nasty pitch or 'paint the black' because that's when you fall behind. You have to stick with what works for you and go after hitters like there's nobody on base.
Mark Mulder
#92. Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.
Tiko Kerr
#93. I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.
Aman Mojadidi
#94. Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Oliver Cromwell
#95. We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer ... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
#97. If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't "fail." You've "tried your best."
Jane Seymour
#98. My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.
Luanne Rice
#99. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.
Henry David Thoreau
#100. As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.
Dan Colen
