Paint Quotes

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors,set today’s rhythm with your heart-drum,walk today’s march with courage,create today as your celebration of life.

~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

~ Man Ray

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

~ David Hockney

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

~ Aimé Césaire

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

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

~ Charlie Hunnam

Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.

~ Wendy E. Long

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

~ Juan Gris

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

~ Pablo Picasso

Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.

~ Craig Robinson

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

~ Ashley Jensen

I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

~ Mary Steenburgen

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

~ James Cameron

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

~ Michael Graves

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

~ Edward Hopper

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

~ Pablo Picasso

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

~ Edward Hopper

I paint with shapes.

~ Alexander Calder

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

~ Henri Matisse

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

~ Gertrude Stein

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Paint the essential character of things.

~ Camille Pissarro

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

~ Pierre Bonnard

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

~ Philip Guston

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

~ Maria Montessori

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

~ Ed Koch

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

~ Fra Angelico

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

~ Orhan Pamuk

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

~ Michelangelo