We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

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

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.

I thought I'd be a chef by night and paint by day. Now I just have fabulous dinner parties.

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

Social media is awesome because I can somewhat paint myself the way I want people to see me.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.

I don't really want to get too heavy, you know. I still want to be able to move in the paint.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.

The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

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

I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Dead, Zeppelin, the Beatles - I paint to this music all of the time.

Trump is an icon. He is a part of American history. He is every bit the icon as anyone I paint.

Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well.

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.

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

I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.

I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation.

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

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

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

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

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