Paint Quotes - Page 3

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

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

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.