Top 625 Paint Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Paint Quotes from famous people such as Jamie Hewlett, Ashley Jensen, David Hockney, Grace Slick, James Ivory, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.
Jamie Hewlett
As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.
Ashley Jensen
I’ve always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.
David Hockney
People ask me why I don’t paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months to really dry, and all this. I don’t have that kind of time. I work with acrylic. It’s water based. You can clean it under water. If you spill it on yourself, you just throw it in the washing machine.
Grace Slick
I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the school of architecture, I took up modern painting.
James Ivory
Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.
Tyson Chandler
Anything can be taken out of context and anything you say or do is not necessarily an accurate reflection of who you are in your totality. There are small moments of your life that when taken into account with the rest of your life start to paint a picture.
Sam Levinson
I was inspired by many teachers when I started my channel, Bob Ross being one of them. His voice was so soothing, almost like hypnosis. He was that great of a teacher, even the casual viewer could learn how to paint from watching his show. Growing up, I just remember him being so mesmerizing on screen.
Michelle Phan
I think that’s my job to be a little nasty – to bring that energy, protect the paint and really just protect our guys. That’s the role of a big man. It’s not cute; it’s not pretty being a big. You have to come in and do the little things, do the dirty work.
Tristan Thompson
When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.
Tony Fadell
I think it’s important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I’m a little bit scattered, but it’s so I can convincingly play all these characters.
Ansel Elgort
Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can’t look anywhere and see in my real life.
Vic Mensa
In computing, everything happens inside this rectangular screen. I want to get the pixels out, paint the world, and allow us to interact with it.
Pranav Mistry
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Charles Dudley Warner
If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we’ll stand or fall on whatever we did.
Adam West
Let’s face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There’s no arguing really, is there?
Ronnie Wood
Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.
Kelly Wearstler
I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I’ve wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.
Jojo Moyes
I paint flowers so they will not die.
Frida Kahlo
I grew up in what some would call an immaculately clean home. I hated my mom a little for it. I wasn’t allowed to paint my nails, since they’d chip and ‘look trashy.’ My brother and I didn’t run around in clothes that had holes or were stained.
Stephanie Land
I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.
Amitava Kumar
I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I’m pretty hot. I’ve got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.
Caitlin Moran
During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, ‘Hang on a minute – I can paint.’ I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.
Ronnie Wood
I tell you it’s no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don’t think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.
William Morris Hunt
Never underestimate the power of a fresh coat of white paint.
Jeremiah Brent
There are all sorts of reasons why I don’t do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I’ve given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It’s like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
Peter Cushing
I go to the studio every day, but I don’t paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.
Gerhard Richter
I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we’re all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.
Louise L. Hay
In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.
John O’Neill
I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.
Ronnie Wood
When I paint at home with friends, I have a chat and it’s just a good time.
Anh Do
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
Edward Hopper
In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
Ethan Hawke
I don’t see a problem with looking at women as beautiful objects. I’m an artist. I don’t know how to paint, but I know how to make music, and women are art.
Too Short
Painters aren’t expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
Alexander McCall Smith
I just block out the demons. I sing. I block them away. I put my pain into my music. I paint. I make my own videos. I direct myself. No one directs me anymore. I am in charge of my destiny.
Dolores O’Riordan
I was a target. There was a guy who took a paint roller extension pole and blasted me in the knee a few times. I had to have surgery to relieve the pain when I got out of prison.
Tim Donaghy
Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.
Emma Tennant
I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.
Joni Mitchell
I struggle with arrangements. I take forever doing them. It gets to a point where I’ve been playing around with things on loops for days. I always paint in broad strokes – very quickly, I’ll feel out the larger structure – but it’s putting the details in that I find the hardest part.
Bonobo
I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.
James Turrell
I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.
Paul Simonon
The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they’re never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.
Terence Winter
When teams are crowded in the paint, it’s very hard to get in there and penetrate, but you got to find ways to get into transition and get into your strengths. It’s a lot of thinking out there, you got to make sure you think and strategize.
Collin Sexton
He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
People don’t have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe
I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.
Emma Watson
At the end of the day, if you’re an actor, you want to act. And it’s not something you can do in the living room alone. If you’re a painter, you can paint at home. If you write music, you can write on your own.
Ari Graynor
Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.
Willie Cauley-Stein
What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages I try to constantly get across is, ‘Slow it down and enjoy every moment.’
Thomas Kinkade
There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you’ve got it, you’ve got it. When you haven’t, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
Edouard Manet
Trump is an icon. He is a part of American history. He is every bit the icon as anyone I paint.
Michael Israel
I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.
Steven Holl
When I was with my second husband, I’d always paint my nails and go to bed with my make-up on; he loved all that.
Shirley Ballas
You paint something, and it’s yours. It’s your heart up on the wall.
Jason Momoa
When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh
When you make music, you’re forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
Flea
I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn’t think a formal education was necessary for a painter.
Jamie Wyeth
I acquired quite a lot of technical skill and got quite a long way with my painting, but I never felt I was doing what New Zealand was about with my paint.
Ngaio Marsh