Wennersten Paint Quotes

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith. ~ Willem De Kooning

No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on ~ J. Cole

Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job. ~ Paul Theroux

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint. ~ John Marin

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff. ~ Abbie Cornish

It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can. ~ Helen Van Wyk

You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis. ~ Dave Barry

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you. ~ Robert Henri

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness ... ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I wish I could paint like Raphael," Lucio said. "I'd paint you! You should smile more often - it's like dawn breaking over a snowfield. ~ Kate Forsyth

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

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not. ~ George Crabbe

I would say - and paint doesn't peel unless it's acrylic paint, so maybe it is acrylic paint that they're using, not oil paint. So let me say yes, it would be acrylic house paint, which, when it dries, peels very nicely. So let's go with that. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too. ~ Margaret Keane

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly. ~ Anthony Hopkins

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ~ Henri Matisse

I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches. ~ Judith Ellen Levy

Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory. ~ Rajneesh

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying. ~ Drake

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people. ~ George Edward Moore

PAINT the leaves as they grow! If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the world,' John Ruskin ~ John Ruskin

I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint. ~ Grace Gealey

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint. ~ Charles Webster Hawthorne

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring. ~ Dogen

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like. ~ J. M. W. Turner

Everyone knows that if you paint a human being entirely with house paint he will live, as long as you don't paint the bottom of his feet. It takes only a little thing like this to kill a person. ~ Miranda July

The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint. ~ Reggie Jackson

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin. ~ Margaret Atwood

I was never one to paint space, I paint air. ~ Fairfield Porter

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel. ~ Romare Bearden

Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane. ~ Walter Keane

Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence. ~ Grandma Moses

When I pull down the wall, I turn off all the colors, I wash them away. And I need color to paint. I want to paint. I need to paint. ~ Amy Harmon

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint. ~ Wayne Thiebaud

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

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to a wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide. ~ Dorothy Draper

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you. ~ Robert Henri

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject. ~ Jamie Wyeth

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. ~ Robert Genn

Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush. ~ Toni Onley

I only feel, but want the power to paint. ~ Juvenal

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to. ~ Beatrice Lillie

Most artists are surrealists ... always dreaming something and then they paint it. ~ Dong Kingman

Paint the entire ship? Id rather eat my cigar! ~ Hannibal

If you construct a room in paint, you haunt it. Your life rests in every stroke. So paint only the rooms that you can bear to occupy forever. Or paint the stars instead. ~ Benjamin Wood

Since I cannot sing, I paint. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all? ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to ... ~ James Elkins

I spilt paint all over the bar, they almost fired me. ~ The Rev

Paint like a pig eats. ~ Richard Schmid

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography. ~ Jim Lee

The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the same way: Right color, right value, in right spot. There are no prescriptions. ~ Sergei Bongart

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. ~ Frank Capra

Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do. ~ Tiko Kerr

Why do you paint, Nona?"...

'I paint first to honor God who paints the sunsets and oceans and human hearts. And second, I paint so I don't get cranky like so many of the old people in this world. ~ Kimberly Stuart

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else ~ Henri Matisse

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own ... ~ Paul Gauguin

Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals. ~ Bill Harry

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out. ~ Robert Plant

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures ~ Salvador Dali

I paint flowers so they will not die. ~ Frida Kahlo

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint. ~ Ben Shahn

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint. ~ Josef Albers

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him. ~ George Herbert

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces. ~ Stephane Mallarme

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid! ~ Jemima Kirke

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint ... ~ Keith Haring

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do. ~ Francis Bacon

Paint it the color of your suit. ~ Laure Lacornette

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint. ~ Rene Magritte

I see less and less ... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up ... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf. ~ Claude Monet

You have to work with the paint and work with whatever the day brings you. If it's a wee bit dreary out, you paint it. But paint it so it makes you glad to be inside near a cozy fire. ~ Kieran Kramer

How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black. ~ Ben Shahn

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying ~ Frida Kahlo

If you can talk about it, why paint it? ~ Francis Bacon

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

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it. ~ Arnold Friberg

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. ~ Oscar Wilde

You can try to dirty my name, but I'll wear your hate like war paint. ~ Madalyn Beck

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space. ~ Joseph Raffael

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two. ~ Tony Snow

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

I paint with my back to the world ~ Agnes Martin

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint. ~ Bill Viola

I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself. Spray paint is impossible. They say it takes a decade to really learn spray paint and be good with it. I've been at it about ten years now and am now really just getting good and confident with it. ~ Alec Monopoly

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age ~ Karel Appel

Burnt by the sun
of your mouth,
I'm unable to speak
or paint you with words ~ John Geddes

One must be of one's time and paint what one sees. ~ Edouard Manet

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation. ~ Lawrence Durrell

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. ~ Joni Mitchell

The big moment came when it was decided to paint ... Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral. ~ Harold Rosenberg

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

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash. ~ Jasper Fforde

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. ~ Grandma Moses

Kids are real artists. They'd rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside. ~ Shawn Lukas

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

Use lots of paint and don't worry, they will make more ... ~ Richard Schmid

I would like to paint the way a bird sings. ~ Claude Monet