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Paint Quotes

Quotes on painting as daily practice.

Paint is described here as a near-daily necessity rather than a hobby, paired in one line with composing music and in another framed as something the speaker lives for rather than merely does. Everyday versions appear too, like painting portraits or even one's own house.

When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.

Quotes by Rita Ora

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

Quotes by Richard Price

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Quotes by Richard Linklater

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Quotes by Richard Avedon

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

Quotes by Richard Attenborough

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Quotes by Rene Magritte

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

Quotes by Pierce Brosnan

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

Quotes by Pierre Bonnard

It was a special thrill to meet, paint, and hang out with Ringo Starr.

Quotes by Peter Max

I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now, what am I gonna do later.

Quotes by Peter Max

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

Quotes by Peter Marino

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Quotes by Peter Dinklage

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

Quotes by Paul Simonon

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Quotes by Paul Klee

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

Quotes by Paul Cezanne

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Quotes by Paul Cezanne

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Quotes by Paul Cezanne

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Quotes by Paul Cezanne

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

Pablo Picasso

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

Pablo Picasso

A standout entry describes the milestone of painting a sitting president as an unmatched career moment. See the Art quotes page for more on creative identity.