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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.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

Quotes by Morris Graves

Why talk when you can paint?

Quotes by Milton Avery

I would have loved to paint Eartha Kitt, but she's no longer here. I'm so glad I had the chance to meet her.

Quotes by Mickalene Thomas

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

Quotes by Michelangelo

Trump is an icon. He is a part of American history. He is every bit the icon as anyone I paint.

Quotes by Michael Israel

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

Quotes by Max Cannon

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Quotes by Maurice Denis

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Quotes by Matthew Prior

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

Quotes by Martin Mull

Elected officials want to paint everyone with a broad brush. What they don't get is that everyone pays bills. Liberal activists pay bills. Conservative activists pay bills. Independents pay bills.

Quotes by Marc Veasey

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'ready-mades aided' and also works of assemblage.

Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

Quotes by M. F. Husain

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

Quotes by Lucian Freud

I want paint to work as flesh.

Quotes by Lucian Freud

I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.

Quotes by Loretta Swit

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

Quotes by Larry Wall

I paint. I love the visual arts.

Quotes by Kristin Bauer van Straten

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.