Paint Quotes

No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on

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

They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.

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

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint The greats were great because they paint a lot

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

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

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

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

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

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

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

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

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.

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

Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars

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.

Why talk when you can paint?

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

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

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

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

Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.

I may paint flat, but I don't think flat.

I paint life as I would like it to be.

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

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

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

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.