Best 438 quotes in «paint quotes» category

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

I paint abstract expressions.

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

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

I saw the industrial scene and I was affected by it. I tried to paint it all the time. I tried to paint the industrial scene as best I could. It wasn’t easy.

I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

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

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.

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

It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.

It's an honor to paint cats.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.

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

I was never one to paint space, I paint air.