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Quotes About Paint

had been used for stirring paint. George picked it up and started to stir his marvelous concoction. The mixture was as thick as cream
~ Roald Dahl
I point out these details because we are tactile creatures. Fabric, leather, graphics, paint, paper—these substances and surfaces we surround ourselves with powerfully affect us.
~ Rob Bell
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
~ Robert Fulghum
Occasionally, the light seemed to arrive from a distinct direction, like the sun slanting through a gap in a curtain, but often it simply infused whatever aches or traumas afflicted people. At such times, it had the appearance of a strange luminescent paint layered directly over their skin. They might have been angels in an El Greco painting.
~ Kevin Brockmeier
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
~ Alexander Pope
For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.
~ yeats william butler iii
I wanted to design the house around my body and my needs, instead of following the pattern that I'd fallen into in my big house: picking paint colors and finishing the woodwork with some future owner and salability in mind. This was going to be my house.
~ Dee Williams
The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?
~ Jim Elliot
Already midcareer, Ted published Van Gogh, Painter of Sound, which found correlations between Van Gogh's types of brushstroke and the proximity of noisemaking creatures like cicadas, bees, crickets, and woodpeckers—whose microscopic traces had been detected in the paint itself.
~ Jennifer Egan
Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it.
~ Emily Dickinson
A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint
~ Amy Efaw
When you put pressure on the paint, you not only score but you force the whole defense to collapse and you can make easy plays to hit shooters.
~ RJ Barrett
I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.
~ David Labrava
Then I sniffed more deeply. "I smell the paint, and...wait...is that pine?" He looked impressed. "Dame straight. Pine-scented cleaner. As in, I cleaned!" He gestured to the kitchen dramatically. "With these hands that don't do manual labor.
~ Richelle Mead
am going to get on a drunk that is a drunk. Just to change my luck I will paint a few towns red hot-but till then I
~ Robert A. Carter
The bell ringer's green walnut liqueur was famous in Valetto for its ability to strip paint and dignity.
~ Dominic Smith
I am on the highest branch. We are written in paint. I believe in signs. The glow of Ultraviolet. A lake. A prayer. It's so lovely to be lovely in Private.
~ Jennifer Niven
I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.
~ Jerry Harrison
I've been living in this apartment for years, and every time I paint it, it's a little bit smaller. The thickness of the paint keeps coming in closer. I don't even know where the wall outlets are anymore. I look for a lump with two slots in it. Looks like a pig is trying to push his way through from the other side. That's where I plug in.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
You have to have at least some kind of baseline coverage under the studio lights. It's not like normal makeup; it's like walking around with a wet coat of paint on your face.
~ Alex Wagner
My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.
~ David Hasselhoff
When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It is almost like when you paint on paper, and you can see the paper through the paint.
~ Akhil Sharma
I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art... If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.
~ Santiago Calatrava
I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.
~ Jerry Harrison