Paint Quotes - Page 17

• Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, Color, Effort

  Jennifer Saville, Georgia O'Keeffe, Honolulu Academy of Arts (1990). “Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i”

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Stupid, Fool, Wanted

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.257, UPNE

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Sky, Sunrise

  "Thief Of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This weed we call self-actualization….It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming.

  Abraham Maslow

  Motivational, Weed, Writing

  22 Copy quote

• Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Eye, Hands, Long

  7 Copy quote

• I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes to the monkey and said, listen, I'm not a hippo. So, he paint himself like a zebra. He said but he's still a hippo. He said but look at you, you're painted like a zebra but you are a hippo. So then he goes, you know, like I want be a little parrot. So, he put the colours on him and he comes to the monkey and said but, sorry, you are a hippo. So, in the end, you know, he comes and said I'm happy to be a hippo. This is who I am. So, I have to be who I am and he's happy being a hippo.

  Marat Safin

  Zebras, Sorry, Fighting

  11 Copy quote

• Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in!

  George H. W. Bush

  Dream, Writing, Eye

  5 Copy quote

• I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.

  Willem de Kooning

  Horse, Pain, Drama

  53 Copy quote

• I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

  Willem de Kooning

  Horse, Pain, Integrity

  59 Copy quote

• Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Artist, Want, Helping

  7 Copy quote

• Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.

  Aravind Adiga

  Beautiful, Gun, Boys

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.163, Atlantic Books Ltd

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• How could anyone not want to live when there were so many things to live for? There were rainy nights and wind and the slap of the sea and the moon. There were books to read and pictures to paint and music.

  Michelle Magorian

  Book, Night, Moon

  7 Copy quote

• I’m actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

  Kate Upton

  Horse, Association, Equestrian

  "Kate Upton on Riding Horses, Weeding Out Lesser Men, and Talking Trash". Interview with Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. April 27, 2012.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard.

  John Ensign

  Past, Office, People

  4 Copy quote

• Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

  Tyson Chandler

  Wind, Relax, Yeah

  4 Copy quote

• I still love a lot of the guys who just paint

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Guy, Stills

  4 Copy quote

• I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Black And White, Artist, Wanted

  4 Copy quote

• Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Volunteer, Empowering

  11 Copy quote

• Let me tell you, you can paint pictures and get people indicted for just about anything.

  Al D'Amato

  People, Justice, Let Me

  4 Copy quote

• If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Spring, Autumn

  56 Copy quote

• I don't paint nature. I am nature.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist

  8 Copy quote

• Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship to reality. ...You can't 'stay the course' because you don't have a course.

  Juan Cole

  Reality, Political, World

  4 Copy quote

• Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Book, Reading

  5 Copy quote

• If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods likes horses and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the bodies of each. So the Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians give theirs red hair and blue eyes.

  Xenophanes

  Art, Horse, Eye

  31 Copy quote

• It's an honor to paint cats.

  Oliver Johnson

  Cat, Honor

  7 Copy quote