Paint Quotes - Page 13

• Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Ignorance, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1882). “Wit, Wisdom, Eloquence, and Great Speeches of Col. R. G. Ingersoll: Including Eloquent Extracts, Witty, Wise, Pungent, Truthful Sayings and Full Reports of the Great Speeches of this Celebrated Man, Together with the Funeral Oration at His Brother's Grave”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner.

  Ann Hood

  Daughter, Mother, Rain

  52 Copy quote

• Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular. Anything can be creative - you bring that quality to the activity. Activity itself is neither creative nor uncreative. You can paint in an uncreative way. You can sing in an uncreative way. You can clean the floor in a creative way. You can cook in a creative way. Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things.

  Rajneesh

  Attitude, Creativity, Dancing

  4 Copy quote

• I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

  Hans Hofmann

  Attitude, Healing, Optimism

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 119, 1962.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by meditation. If somebody is a painter and he starts meditating, his painting will have a sudden jump, it will become tremendously profound - because whatsoever you paint reflects your mind. If the mind goes deeper, your painting will go deeper. You paint your mind. What else can you paint? You paint yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, People

  7 Copy quote

• He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

  Horace

  Feet, Long, Half

  Ars Poetica l. 97

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

  Thomas Willis

  Soul, Brain, Tasks

  7 Copy quote

• I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

  Paolo Veronese

  Art, Consideration, Natural

  Paolo Veronese's testimony before the inquisition in Venice, as translated by Charles Yriarte, members.efn.org. July 18, 1573.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Able, Rebound

  9 Copy quote

• That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Team, Play

  12 Copy quote

• I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

  Hans Hofmann

  Passion, Optimism, Able

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 119, 1962.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Nature, Philosophy, Hero

  4 Copy quote

• May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy that knowing your loved one brought... For time and space can never divide Or keep your loved one from your side. When memory paints in colors true, the happy hours that belonged to you.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Sympathy, Memories, Grief

  323 Copy quote

• Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

  Bernard Williams

  Optimistic, Optimism, Emptiness

  6 Copy quote

• Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Misery, Canvas

  127 Copy quote

• The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

  Edward Burne-Jones

  Angel, Wings, Soul

  31 Copy quote

• I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

  Lana Del Rey

  Beautiful, Memories, Writing

  10 Copy quote

• Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

  Thomas Couture

  Color, Knowing, Connections

  Thomas Couture (1879). “Conversations on Art Methods”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.

  Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

  Color, Use, Emotion

  11 Copy quote

• I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.

  George Frederic Watts

  Heart, Eye, Men

  12 Copy quote

• I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.

  Morris Graves

  Reality, Quality, Mysterious

  Harvard Review, Issues 20-21, p. 26, 2001.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

  Alexej von Jawlensky

  Soul, Saws, Painting

  Alexej von Jawlensky, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen (1994). “Alexej von Jawlensky: 25/9-27/11/1994, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam”, Univ of Washington Pr

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

  Toni Onley

  Drawing, Brushes, Draws

  7 Copy quote

• You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.

  Andre Lhote

  Color, Drawing, Way

  André Lhote (1950). “Treatise on Landscape Painting”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.

  Herwarth Walden

  Art, Expression, Given

  6 Copy quote