Top 100 Quotes About Paints
#1. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. He gave me a timid smile. "The trouble is," he said, "that nobody paints our times. Nobody paints the age we live in." I murmured something about Benton, and John Steuart Curry. "No," he said, "we'll never find out what the age is like, by peering in a landscape." I
Robert Nathan
#3. The way Grandma paints her dream for me, there's a low sky.
Heidi W. Durrow
#4. When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.
Erwin McManus
#5. As they clean the walls with wet cloths and sponges, they uncover the earlier paints, most prevalent a stark blue that must have been inspired by Mary's blue robes. Renaissance painters could get that rare color only from ground lapis lazuli brought from quarries in what is now Afghanistan.
Frances Mayes
#6. In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.
John McLaughlin
#7. Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.
Dan Harris
#8. The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.
Norman Rockwell
#9. Those who are in the orbit, but nonetheless on the edges, can often be the real discoverers. It was why at times, the journalist, the historian and even the novelist paints the fullest picture of an era
Bob Woodward
#10. Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade.
Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.
Laini Taylor
#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
#14. Scripture paints men as they really are, hiding none of their blemishes or barbaric ways. The honesty of scripture is one of the reasons I knew that the Bible would be the place to go to learn what a real man should be and do.
Dennis Rainey
#15. I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.
Rachel Bilson
#16. There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.
Gustav Klimt
#17. When an artist paints a flower, she borrows the beauty from nature and adds fragrance from her own heart.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.
Mason Cooley
#19. How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
Thomas Hood
#20. I am the eye that beholds ... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky ... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love.
Solange Nicole
#21. An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
Pablo Picasso
#22. Tyrion seated himself and took a sip of wine. If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow at him. I have seen dead men with more humor than your Ser Alliser.
George R R Martin
#23. Art is something given, not reproduced ... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being ... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.
Herwarth Walden
#24. My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind.
Horace Pippin
#25. Every cloud has a silver lining because God is the one who paints them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#27. Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?
Franz Marc
#29. When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.
Aristide Maillol
#30. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
Pablo Picasso
#31. How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.
Gerhard Richter
#32. If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.
George R R Martin
#33. Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
Pablo Picasso
#34. A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
Pablo Picasso
#35. I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.
Robert Browning
#36. Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
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Adolf Hitler
#37. We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.
Amy Harmon
#38. All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
Rollo May
#39. In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#40. I like charcoal drawing a lot. I'm not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I'm on location, because I always have this ambition to fill the hotel room I'm in and turn it into an art studio.
Ben Schnetzer
#41. An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes, with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills. - Daniel Burnham talking about Frederick Law Olmstead
Erik Larson
#42. It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.
Joe Bradley
#43. My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
Caio Fonseca
#44. A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
Mary Astor
#45. Never fear having your ideas stolen. Your creative idea is a image you are painting like a picture on a canvas, they may "steal" your idea, however they cannot steal your paints.
Sumner Davenport
#46. The impact hit her like a physical blow. He was ... "Beautiful." Eyes of such pure undiluted blue it was as if some heavenly artist had crushed sapphires into his paints and then colored in the irises with the finest of brushes.
Nalini Singh
#47. I also want the figurative like a painter who only paints abstract colors but wants to show that he does so because he chooses to, not because he can't draw.
Clarice Lispector
#48. A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words.
Debasish Mridha
#49. I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
Peter Max
#50. Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm ... he really paints men.
Eugene Delacroix
#51. A friend of mine says his two favorite artists are Picasso and Rembrandt. Picasso because he paints the beautiful in such an ugly fashion. And Rembrandt because he paints the ugly so beautifully.
Anna Torv
#52. If he is going into management, he writes. If he is an engineer or architect why he paints or sculpts. He will straddle the line, aware up to the point of knowing he is getting the worst of both worlds, but never stopping to wonder why there should ever be a line, or even if there is a line at all.
Thomas Pynchon
#53. He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent for words, neither for paints nor music; his uselessness is tremendously total.
Curtis Ackie
#55. A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was one thing I was familiar with it was pleasing ... There's no way to finish that sentence without embarrassing myself.
Molly Harper
#57. Yeah a picture paints a thousand words it's true,
But it's still not enough for how I feel about you.
I wanna put you in a melody, I gotta set you to a groove
Keith Urban
#58. Maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway
excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.
Kathleen Winsor
#59. Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share - he cannot help it - what he has found.
Madeleine L'Engle
#61. No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.
John Newman
#62. This time when she picked up her paints, she didn't think, she just painted. It was like opening the door onto a storm. The canvas was her doorway and the paint all the thunder and lightning, the wild pain-filled sky caught inside her.
Michelle Frost
#63. Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.
Robert Motherwell
#64. My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
John Dyer
#65. You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
Otto Dix
#66. The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
Max Nordau
#67. Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
Eugenio Montale
#68. Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. A search through Whistler's correspondence, now online at the University of Glasgow, paints a portrait of a relationship that at times was volatile, with Sickert swinging from sycophantic to offended and defensive. Whistler's
Patricia Cornwell
#70. If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one.
Amen Muffler
#71. If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels ...
Josh Stern
#72. Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.
Swami Vivekananda
#73. Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.
Vera Nazarian
#74. Alexandra, my eldest, here, plays the piano, or reads or sews; Adelaida paints landscapes and portraits (but never finishes any); and Aglaya sits and does nothing. I don't work too much, either.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#75. The light is really the most important thing, so if you don't have skylights and if you don't have north light, this is like having a natural skylight. Light is the crucial factor. With wet oil paints, you don't want any hot spots or bounce.
Pierre Coupey
#76. All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.
Ernst Haas
#77. I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid
Joni Mitchell
#78. To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
Saint Augustine
#79. It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand ...
Elsie De Wolfe
#80. This world, that world, doesn't matter. You never make people to see what you see, hear, feel what you feel. Notes don't do it, words don't do it, paints, bronze, marble, nothing. All you can do, you maybe get it a little close, a little closer. But right, like you're talking? No.
Peter S. Beagle
#81. Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.
Heidi W. Durrow
#82. You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.
Wilferd Peterson
#83. The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
Irving Stone
#84. 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
#86. The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity.
Stacey Levine
#87. A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
Josef Albers
#88. Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
#90. My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but he was always a Sunday painter. At a certain point, he gave me his oil paints and I messed around with them, having no idea what I was doing.
David Salle
#92. White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
G.K. Chesterton
#93. Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
Thomas Hood
#94. I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.
Childe Hassam
#95. The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world ... the picture ... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.
Pierre Bonnard
#96. When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Ellen Key
#97. I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.
Amanda Harlech
#98. The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.
Debbie Allen
#99. There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism.
John Carroll
#100. An impassioned spirit truly paints the gray world with color.
Krista Ritchie
