A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
Leopold Stokowski

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Grandma Moses

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.
Ernst Haas

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
Adolf Hitler

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
Thomas Hood

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
Jasper Johns

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
Peter Max

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
Mark Rothko

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
John Dyer

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
Eugenio Montale

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.
Sherrod Brown

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
Max Nordau

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
Annie Dillard

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.
Norman Rockwell