Paint Quotes - page 2

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. (Edvard Munch)
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
Louise L. Hay
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent van Gogh
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Frida Kahlo
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Henri Matisse
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso
The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.
Dan Brown
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
Richard Price
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
Georgia O'Keeffe
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
I mean it's weird because the thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.
Naomi Watts
Work at the same time upon water, sky, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis and unceasingly rework until you have got it. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
Camille Pissarro
I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.
Christopher Plummer
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
Nikos Kazantzakis
A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
Chester W. Nimitz
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
Ernest Hemingway
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
Chuck Palahniuk
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
William Congreve
I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they... find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you get. (Frank Stella)
Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Oliver Cromwell
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
Vincent van Gogh
I paint flowers so they will not die.
Frida Kahlo
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso