Top 100 Quotes About Paints
#1. You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life.
Kate McGahan
#3. When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.
Meg Rosoff
#4. Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.
Ravi Zacharias
#5. Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times
Robert A. Heinlein
#6. Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
Alexander Pope
#7. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
#8. He carries stars in his pockets
because he knows
she fears the dark.
Whenever sadness pays her a visit
he paints galaxies
on the back of her hands.
Alaska Gold
#9. 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
#10. Just as a painter paints,
and a ponderer ponders,
a writer writes,
and a wanderer wanders.
Roman Payne
#11. When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.
Dogen
#12. Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
#13. Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
Kevin Keegan
#14. She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
Barbara Cooney
#15. My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.
Charles Mingus
#16. There is no past, memory paints it,' " the pope recited. " 'There is no future, for hope shapes it. There is only the present, but it is always escaping us.
David I. Kertzer
#17. Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#18. A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words - A Book Paints a Thousand Pictures.
Philos Sopher
#19. When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#20. If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.
James Whistler
#22. I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
Chris Jordan
#23. Honey, the devil paints the prettiest masks. Some of us learn that the hard way, but don't blame yourself. I did that for years, and no good ever comes of it.
Dannika Dark
#24. Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
John Dryden
#25. To paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.
Brenda Ueland
#26. I want to watch you come," he whispers, eyes moving across my face. He pulls his thumb back and paints a wet line across my lower lip. "I want to feel you squeezing me and I want to eat your greedy little noises.
Christina Lauren
#27. When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels, the brush we use is a pressure sensitive pen. The colors are the same as painters use, and how we get to the final image is the same gut wrenching way.
Donald Lambert
#28. An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.
Julia Cameron
#29. The moon is the lamp he paints by; His canvas the window pane; His brush is a frozen snowflake; Jack Frost the artist's name.
C.C. Long
#30. But, memory paints impressionistic portraits of the past, enhancing some images and blurring others. To her,
Monique Martin
#31. Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
Lydia M. Child
#32. Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso
#33. A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Grandma Moses
#34. Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed. A portrait not only allows us to see our own faces, but how it looks to others.
Megan Hart
#35. Christianity is different, first, because of grace; second, because it's testable; and third, because it paints a picture that matches the way the world is, in a way that other religions don't.
Lee Strobel
#36. What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.
Edgar Degas
#37. Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.
Samuel Johnson
#38. I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.
David Johansen
#39. Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.
David Sylvester
#40. You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes ... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.
Dave Genn
#41. I love you beyond paints, beyond melodies, beyond words.
Kiera Cass
#42. The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.
John Edgar Park
#43. I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics
Tituss Burgess
#44. As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.
Brahmananda Saraswati
#45. Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
Man Ray
#46. Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.
Clement Greenberg
#47. The hunter sinks his arrows into the trees and then paints the targets around them. The trees imagine they are deer. The deer imagine they are safe. The arrows: they have no imagination.
Richard Siken
#48. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
#49. A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
#50. When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
George D. Prentice
#51. She missed
without knowing what she missed
paints and crayons
Toni Morrison
#52. Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.
John Armstrong
#53. A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.
Steven Pressfield
#54. The Bible alone gives a true and faithful account of man. It does not flatter him as novels and romances do; it does not conceal his faults and exaggerate his goodness, it paints him just as he is.
J.C. Ryle
#55. She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.
Arthur Golden
#56. A picture paints a thousand words, a thousand poorly chosen words.
S.E. Toon
#57. If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?
Plato
#58. The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell
and paints the inside walls sky-blue
and blocks up the door
and says he's in heaven.
D.H. Lawrence
#59. He strokes my hair and tells me stories and tucks me close like he's afraid I'll disappear. He paints pictures of people and places until I'm drowning in a drug of dreams to escape a world with no refuge, no relief, no release but his reassurances in my ear.
Tahereh Mafi
#61. All his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.
Truman Capote
#63. And if somehow my conduct ain't all your fancy paints, why single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints.. From 'Tommy
Rudyard Kipling
#64. Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.
Jim Rowe
#65. 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.
Sherrod Brown
#66. When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time - or better - the experience of color coming slowly out of the tube - is with me to this day.
Wassily Kandinsky
#67. The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.
Barbara Kingsolver
#68. The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.
Jean De La Bruyere
#69. One paints with one's head, not one's hand.
Michelangelo
#70. When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experience in her own fantasy.
Helen Keller
#71. The painter ... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
Annie Dillard
#72. Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.
Douglas Wilder
#73. Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.
W. Somerset Maugham
#74. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine
the impossibility of being human
Charles Bukowski
#75. If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from the story. It's like if a painter sees a beautiful scene and he paints it. If he's in his home it's not the same.
Claudio Simonetti
#76. The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.
Okakura Kakuzo
#77. It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
Georges Braque
#79. He paints a simple square house with a triangle roof that has an "S" inside, "Because, Suzanne, you are my home.
Jennifer Clement
#80. For a moment, I saw that set of paints Elain had once bought me with the extra money she'd saved. The red, yellow, and blue I'd savored, used to paint that dresser in our cottage. I had not painted in years at that point, had not dared spend the money on myself...But Elain had.
Sarah J. Maas
#81. Mist swirled and spun, like monochrome paints running together on a canvas. Light died in the west, and night came of age.
Brandon Sanderson
#82. The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages.
Brendan Sexton III
#84. Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#85. His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.
Jodi Picoult
#86. It is the crimson tongue that paints the world others think they see.
A.J. Darkholme
#87. Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.
Richard Schmid
#88. The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem'ries, Picasso your dreams.
Robert Breault
#89. The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.
Criss Jami
#90. One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.
Georges Vantongerloo
#91. The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.
Dean Koontz
#92. As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
Pablo Picasso
#93. I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
Jasper Johns
#94. We should not for a moment consider even our best-established knowledge of existence as true. It is awareness only of the colors that our own vision paints on the film of one bubble in one strand of foam on the ocean of being.
Olaf Stapledon
#95. Several shades of the color, cloudy, silvery shades, churn underneath the surface of his skin, making him look marbled, textured. It paints a barely believable portrait. Every feature on him works in harmony to create, well, a person. But he's unlike any person I've ever seen.
Chelsea Scott
#97. The essence of creativity is non-compliance though its expression is never completely unrestrained. Even the work of the greatest painter is limited by the expanse of the canvas he paints on.
Amit Pandey
#98. It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
Mark Rothko
#99. You are the type of female who grows more lovely, not by false paints or creams, but by being a complete woman, a woman who knows intelligence, sympathy, forgiveness, generosity, and love of family. I cannot imagine a more perfect combination.
Regina Jeffers
#100. If a prisoner paints his cell in the prison, does it mean that he likes the prison? Why does he do so? It is because he has no choice. Similarly, one has no choice in the worldly life, and that is why he builds a house, buys car, builds a bungalow.
Dada Bhagwan
