Paint Quotes - Page 16

• Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Humility, Humble, Pride

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• There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

  Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

  Color, Two, White

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• If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot.

  Rainn Wilson

  Expression, Shining, Creative

  "Big Think Interview With Rainn Wilson". Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Appreciation, Father, Men

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• If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Country, Pain, Patriotic

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• The most amazing feeling I feel
  Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real
  Maybe I paint the sky blue
  My greatest creation was you.

  Jay-Z

  Fathers Day, Dad, Real

  "Beyonce And Jay-Z Working On New Albums", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

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• After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot.

  Tom Platz

  Workout, Emotional, Artist

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• Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

  Jim Rome

  Soccer, Car, Acting

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• Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

  Alexander Pope

  Garden, Genius, Plant

  Alexander Pope, “Epistles To Several Persons: Epistle Iv, To Richard Boyle,”

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• I can't even find the perfect brush so I can paint what's going through my mind. Racing 'gainst myself but I'm a couple steps behind.

  Drake

  Couple, Humble, Perfect

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• Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

  Drake

  Humble, Men, Flow

  Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.

  Drake

  Hater, Humble, Vivid

  Song: Successful, 2009

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• Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

  Alexander Pope

  Saint, Folly, Grows

  Alexander Pope (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Edited by Robert Carruthers. Illustrated by Portraits and Original Designs. In 4 Volumes”, p.22

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• Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

  Lord Byron

  Giving, People, Romance

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Third”

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• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

  Paul Lynde

  House, Mind, Paper

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• Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Guy, Chairs

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• Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

  Rod Taylor

  Art, Six Months, Void

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• I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Records, Painting, Comment

  "The Speaker's Book of Quotations". Book by Henry O. Dormann, p. 26, 2009.

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• The mind paints before the brush.

  James Ellis

  Mind, Painting, Brushes

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• If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I going to say, 'I'm not going to paint this woman's neck because people will think I just want to lick on necks?' Please! That's not what art is about.

  will.i.am

  Beautiful, Art, Thinking

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• A friend of mine says his two favorite artists are Picasso and Rembrandt. Picasso because he paints the beautiful in such an ugly fashion. And Rembrandt because he paints the ugly so beautifully.

  Anna Torv

  Beautiful, Fashion, Artist

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• I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

  Tony Bennett

  Whole Life, Draws, Whole

  "Tony Bennett: The musician and the artist". www.today.com. September 23, 2007.

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• I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Two, Enough Time, Week

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Two, Musical

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