Paint Quotations

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

I wanted to paint with shadows and capture what light would look like in clothes.

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.

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.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon which the women paint their dreams.

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.

I'd love to paint our roof white - it's so hot down here in Texas! - and I'd love to have a rainwater collection system to save rain runoff for later. I also love to fantasize about keeping chickens in the backyard.

I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.

It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.

The great thing about being an actor in a film is that you're able to start knowing exactly where you're going to finish and really paint something in between. You can work to know the arc you need to build. Whereas in television, it is open-ended, and you're constantly guessing. There are pros and cons to both.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

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.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.

In interior decorating, the pig's actually quite there. It's used in paint for the texture, but also for the glossiness. In sandpaper, bone glue is actually the glue between the sand and the paper. And then in paintbrushes, hairs are used because, apparently, they're very suitable for making paintbrushes because of their hard-wearing nature.

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

If I should have a daughter, instead of 'Mom,' she's gonna call me 'Point B,' because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I'm going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, 'Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.'

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages I try to constantly get across is, 'Slow it down and enjoy every moment.'

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course I could play guitar better than him when I was about 12. But I couldn't paint better than him. So I went, 'I'm going to be the guitarist of the house, not the painter.'

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face!

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

Tis human actions paint the chart of time.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I can come up with.'

You can sometimes avoid costly mistakes. Paint a corner of the room a certain color to see how the light affects it. Or buy just one yard of an expensive fabric to see how you like it in your room.

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?

I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months to really dry, and all this. I don't have that kind of time. I work with acrylic. It's water based. You can clean it under water. If you spill it on yourself, you just throw it in the washing machine.

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

The armed forces are paying a lot more attention to the use of energy. The Air Force has realized that the paint on planes is heavy, so there are going to be a lot more silver planes, or planes painted in a less heavy way, so that you are using less fuel to get from point A to point B.

I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.