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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.

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

Quotes by Jamie Wyeth

I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.

Quotes by Jamie Wyeth

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.

Quotes by Jamie Hewlett

I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.

Quotes by Jamie Hewlett

I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.

Quotes by James Turrell

When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.

Quotes by James Rosenquist

'Tis human actions paint the chart of time.

Quotes by James Montgomery

There were times when I'd go to lawyer auditions, and everyone's in a suit, and I'm covered in concrete and paint.

Quotes by Jake McLaughlin

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

Quotes by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Quotes by Henri Matisse

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.

Quotes by George Jones

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

Quotes by Geoffrey Holder

I used to paint.

Quotes by Gauri Khan

The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

Quotes by G. Edward Griffin

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

Quotes by Fareed Zakaria

A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.

Quotes by Evan Rachel Wood

I write what I see; I paint what I am.

Quotes by Etel Adnan

I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in...

Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

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.