Best 438 quotes in «paint quotes» category

Sometimes the answers you need to hear aren't the answers you want to hear.

Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion

The greater the injury, the greater the fun.

There’s something familiar about the curve of her lower lip. The weight cradled by a soft, slender chin. The bow of her top lip sweeps across it in a way that makes me think of the sun setting on the horizon. A perfect paint stroke of pink to light the sky. -Excerpt from Born Wicked ©2014 A.D. Evans

Throughout the slow burning of the day, the silver-skinned boy kissed the air with the ghost of moon-soaked lips, images circling his head and under his jaw, and paint spilled onto paper. He said he was not an artist, but the boy he remembered told him once that the language of art is such a sacred dream. And he believed him.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.

The darkest part of the storm paints the brightest part of the rainbow.

There inside you exists a most beautiful and unique masterpiece of YOU. To bring its shine out, you must paint and decorate on your canvas, with all the colours of YOUR rainbow you keep and awaiting to be unleashed upon

The sky is a canvas, so paint your own life.

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors; set today’s rhythm with your heart-drum; walk today’s march with courage; create today as your celebration of life.

To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!

Use your own paint; colour your world

We are all artists; painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds.

We are the cave, the hand and the paint on them both.

To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my creative contemplation of an opened mind...it is a storytelling venture on a blank page of paper and white canvases...it is reclaiming my life.

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas for an I-Pad. Celluloid isn't just nostalgic, it's an art form and, like it or not, it's superior to digital. It lasts much longer, it provides grain and brighter colors, and it takes more effort so that it produces something wonderful. With the inferior binary codes, pixels and untested shelf-life of digital files, plus the fact that these days anyone with a digital camera, even a two-year-old, can make a video and pollute the world with self-photography and cat pictures, film has a lot more integrity and worth than digital.

Wenn man meine Seele zeichnen könnte, wäre es irgendein wildes Gekritzel mit deutlich sichtbaren Reißzähnen.

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.

Wisdom paints a rainbow in your mind, joy paints a rainbow in your heart, and love paints a rainbow in your soul.

Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can be plausible options to make ourselves understood. So, if we can’t say it, we can show and depict it. Whereof we cannot speak we can paint! ("Happy days are back again")

You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed.

You can’t colour your world with someone’s paint.

You can paint the whole sky black, but that won’t keep stars from shinning.

You put your soul into those paintings, and nothing in this world is more beautiful to me than that soul of yours.

You could make beautiful pictures with paint, but there was nothing behind it.

You paint the picture of your surroundings. Paint it beautifully.

When you're devoted to someone's heart, you either paint it or pain it.

Your names and your photos give you a unique identity. Make and maintain a good name in the hearts of people. Paint good photos in their minds.

Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren't going to earn a living? I know the answer...I worried that the paint was so thickly applied that it might snap off and ruin someone's carpet, rather than realizing that you'd made color itself tactile.

You want me to explain myself! give me a brush, not a pen

Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job.

A background can be painted in the same range of values as the foreground by reversing the light effect. In the shadow plane, paint the lights cool and the shadows warm, and in the sunlight plane, paint the lights warm and shadows cool.

About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

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

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

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.

A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.

Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.