Paint Quotes - page 19

The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be. (Norman Rockwell)
I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life. View quote
Diora Baird
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. View quote
Emily Carr
Is the Home Secretary aware that I was one of those Members there on Saturday and I was able to observe police officers spraying members of the crowd with red paint in order to identify them for later arrest, that the police were using agents provocateurs in the crowd and that at 9.10 during the evening, when there was complete quiet throughout the crowd, a completely unprovoked dragoon-like charge was mounted by the police straight into that crowd, seriously injuring a number of people? Does not the right hon. Gentleman believe that he should go and witness the scale and ferocity of police violence against innocent, peaceful people protesting against the theft of their jobs by the Murdoch empire? View quote
Jeremy Corbyn
Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job. View quote
Richelle Mead
I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint. View quote
Claude Monet
I have gone back to some things that can't possibly be done: water, with weeds waving at the bottom. It is a wonderful sight, but it drives one to crazy to try to paint it. But that is the kind of thing I am always a tackling. View quote
Claude Monet
To me the motif itself is an insignificant factor; what I want to reproduce is what lies between the motif and me.. .Other painters paint a bridge, a house, a boat.. .I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible. View quote
Claude Monet
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more! View quote
Claude Monet
I am weary, having worked without a break all day; how beautiful it is here, to be sure, but how difficult to paint! I can see what I want to do quite clearly but I'm not there yet. It's so clear and pure in its pink and blues that the slightest misjudged stroke looks like a smudge of dirt... I have fourteen canvases underway. View quote
Claude Monet
I want to paint the way a bird sings. (Claude Monet)
I could not appreciate his [ Boudin ] paintings and when he offered to take me with him to paint outdoors in the open countryside, I always found a pretext and refused politely. But when summer came, I was more or less free to dispose of my time as I wished and I had no feasible excuse left to give him and gave in. Thus it was, that Boudin - with his inexhaustible kindness - took it upon himself to educate me. With time, my eyes began to open and I really started to understand nature. I also learned to love it. I would analyze its forms with my pencil. I would study its colorations. View quote
Claude Monet
Zaandam is particularly remarkable and there is enough here to paint for a life-time. View quote
Claude Monet
I hired a good carriage and had myself driven to Menton, a delightful outing of several hours. Menton is wonderful and is in a splendid setting. I walked to Cap Martin, a famous spot between Menton and Monte Carlo. I saw two motifs there that I want to paint because they are so different from things here, where the sea plays no big part in my studies, where the sea plays no big plays no big part in my studies. View quote
Claude Monet
It is beautiful here [in Etretat, Normandy], my friend; every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting.... I want to fight, scratch it off, start again, because I start to see and understand. I seems to me as if I can see nature and I can catch it all.... it is by observation and reflection that I discover how. That is what we are working on, continuously.. View quote
Claude Monet
I am working from morning to evening, brimming with energy.. I'm fencing and wrestling with the sun. And what a sun it is! In order to paint here, one would need gold and precious stones. It is quite remarkable. View quote
Claude Monet
The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can. View quote
Terrence Howard
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. View quote
Leopold Stokowski
I heard Senator Sam Irvin of Watergate fame say something that stayed with me: 'If you can paint a really good picture of a cow, you don't have to write the word "cow" under it.' View quote
Fred Thompson
For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children. View quote
Fred Thompson
When they paint the image that I was this monster who picked up these alter boys along the street and swatted them like flies I said "this is ludicrous." (John Wayne Gacy)
The reform of our enormous state indeed demanded decentralization and redistribution of powers between the centre and the regions. But the local elites tried to paint this need in the exaggerated colours of 'national survival.' View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
The great difficulty and crowning glory of art is to paint, to draw, to write, naturally and simply. View quote
Auguste Rodin
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The portrait I have to paint is of...an ambiguous character, a mixture of virtues and vices, a perpetual contrast between good impulses and bad actions. View quote
Antoine François Prévost