Quotes tagged ‘paint’

“'I paint for myself, basically. If people like it, bravo; if they don’t, I don’t care. I don’t really care at all. Sometimes it’s better because then I get to keep it.'”

— Wendy Goodman , Françoise Gilot, The Cut, thecut.com

“I heard you paint houses.”

— Steven Zaillian, Jimmy Hoffa, Al Pacino, imdb.com

“Dickie Greenleaf: You're so white! Have you ever seen a guy so white, Marge? Grey, actually. Tom Ripley: It's just an undercoat. Dickie Greenleaf: Say again? Tom Ripley: You know, a primer. Dickie Greenleaf: That's funny. Margie likes that 'cause she's so white. too. Marge Sherwood: Yes, I do and yo…”

— Anthony Minghella, Tom Ripley, Matt Damon, imdb.com

“Pablo: Um, but reading from the book is what caused all this trouble to begin with, so... Ash: Yeah, that's true, but reading from it again can't make things any worse. It's kinda like spilling paint on a painting. It's okay 'cause there's already paint on it. Pablo: That is incorrect.”

— Sean Clements, Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams, Bruce Campbell, imdb.com

“I can't shoot my own mother. Not with paint, anyway.”

— Glenn Eichler, Peggy Nicoll, Daria Morgendorffer (voice), Tracy Grandstaff, imdb.com

“I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.”

— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com

“"Why and I here?" I said aloud. And the room replied - "It's time to paint." The next morning, I began the hardest journey of my life - painting my dream.”

— Elle Luna, amazon.com

“Don't you love it when people in school are like, "I'm a bad test taker?" You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle with that part where we find out what you know? Oh. No, no, I can totally relate. See, because I'm a brilliant painter, minus my God-awful brushstrokes. Oh, how the masterpiece is crys…”

— Daniel Tosh, en.wikiquote.org

“Why was the paint on the wall so cold? It needed more coats!!”

— Free__Time, reddit.com

“A picture must possess a real power to generate light.. ..for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.”

— Henri Matisse, amazon.com

“I think of how, in Czech, 'to paint' and 'to love' are only one vowel away: malovat; milovat. The salution alone is written. I paint you, I paint you, I paint you.”

— Emily Wilson, thebohemyth.com

“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”

— Gertrude Stein, en.wikiquote.org

“I paint what I see and not what others like to see.”

— Edouard Manet, theartstory.org

“I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping, if it seemed to me I knew nothing.”

— Paul Cezanne, amazon.com

“A man is walking down the street when he is approached by a prostitute... "For $200, I'll perform any act for you," she tells him, "provided that you can describe the act in three words." The man thinks about the offer for less than a moment and gives the woman $200. "OK, tell me what you want me to…”

— MJLD5, reddit.com

“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.”

— Zdzislaw Beksinski, goodreads.com