Paint Quotes - page 5

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint! (Hannah More)
Draw you pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Pierre Bonnard
I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism.
Chuck Palahniuk
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.
Aubrey Beardsley
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Spurgeon
I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.
Claude Monet
I see less and less.. .I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up.. ..I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.
Claude Monet
Why do you paint; For exactly the same reason I breathe. Thats not an answer. There isnt any answer. How long hasnt there been any answer; As long as I can remember. And how long have you written; As long as I can remember. I mean poetry. So do I.
E. E. Cummings
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.
Ralph Ellison
.. he [= Michelangelo] was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.
El Greco
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist. (Oscar Wilde)
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
Ralph Bakshi
The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.
George Herbert
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
Terry Brooks
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz
I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.
Gustave Courbet
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum
I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.
Franz Kline
If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.
Franz Kline
People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it, but this is not true. I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.
Franz Kline
I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident.. (Jackson Pollock)
With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use – I don't use the accident – 'cause I deny the accident.... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct.
Jackson Pollock
Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn't touch the surface on the canvas, it's just above.... [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.
Jackson Pollock
Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual – the Orientals did that.
Jackson Pollock
What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir