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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.

I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.

Quotes by Claude Monet

In interior decorating, the pig's actually quite there. It's used in paint for the texture, but also for the glossiness. In sandpaper, bone glue is actually the glue between the sand and the paper. And then in paintbrushes, hairs are...

Quotes by Christien Meindertsma

I want each and every entire brushstroke to be seen. I want the marks made by the tip of the brush to carry as much meaning as the marks made by the dragging tail end, the part that splits open...

Quotes by Chris Raschka

If you've never mixed paint, you aren't going to be able to paint properly.

Quotes by Chris Milk

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Quotes by Chester W. Nimitz

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

Quotes by Charlie Hunnam

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

Quotes by Caspar David Friedrich

Paint the essential character of things.

Quotes by Camille Pissarro

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

Quotes by Caio Fonseca

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

Quotes by Bob Ross

I paint abstract expressions.

Quotes by Billy Zane

Oh, I paint all the time.

Quotes by Billy Dee Williams

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

Quotes by Bill Sienkiewicz

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.

Quotes by Bill Sienkiewicz

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.

Quotes by Ben Eine

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

Quotes by Bam Margera

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

Quotes by Arjun Rampal

If you have an issue with someone, call them out. Don't paint everyone with the same brush.

Quotes by Ariel Helwani

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

Quotes by Annie Parisse

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

Quotes by Andy Summers

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.