P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Paint the sky of life with colors that only you can create!”
Source: Cinderella In Focus: "Finding hope when you're feeling a sense of hopelessness!"
“Paint the stars and the moon
back into my night sky and tell
me it is okay to cry without asking
why.”
Source: Confessions of a Wallflower
“PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.”
“Paint thinner is the boatyard’s morning dew. The stringent smell awakens the mind of a sailor as spring flowers awaken the mind of a poet.
The boatyard, a reflection of your life, reminds us that the least desirable jobs often prove to be the most important and fulfilling. The harder the task, the more one feels rewarded when accomplishing it. Paint erratically splatters on skin in the same fashion that the stars come to fill up the night sky, the constellations on your forearms telling of the most recent project.”
Source: Vicious Cycle: Whiskey, Women, and Water
“Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.”
“Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.”
Source: Monet: a retrospective
“Paint what you see and look with your own eyes.”
Source: Gilbert Stuart
“Paint what you see, not what you know.”
“Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.”
Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne
“Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.”
“Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.”
“Paint your face and paint your smile...”
“Paint your life with the colors of kindness so that you may find the true bliss of happiness.”
“paint
your nails
black,
rub glitter
on your
face,
take
so many
selfies,
compliment
all your
sisters
(no,
not just
your cis-ters),
& hex
any
man
who
catcalls
you.
- a note from me scrawled on your mirror.”
Source: The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One
“Paint your own path even if that means walking it alone, sometimes that’s when you get the best surprises in life. - Martha Mandaric”
Source: Soul Works - The Minds Journal Collection
“Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.”
“Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now.”
“Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.”
“Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.”
“Painted and smiling, I balance on my trapeze. Luka is poised ten metres away, his muscles shining under the lights. The wooden circles in his earlobes twitch as his jaw clenches, unclenches, clenches.”
Source: The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
“Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath the
floorboards.”
Source: Nevermore
“Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.”
“Painted feather flower
Meaning: Tears
Verticordia picta | Southwestern Australia
A small to medium-sized shrub with pink, cupped flowers that are sweetly scented. Once established, it will only live for around ten years, with a profuse display of bright flowers over a long season.”
Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“Painted in a corner? You've but to look at your own hand to see who's holding the paintbrush.”
“Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out.”
Source: The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality
“Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception.”
“Painter and reality! Both of these are changers! But the painter changes reality virtually; on the other hand, reality changes the painter really!”
“Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.”
“Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.”
Source: The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates Between Gandhi and Tagore, 1915-1941
“Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.”
“Painters and poets have liberty to lie.”
“Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“Painters--and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!”
Source: Bluebeard
“Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.”
Source: Brice Marden: Recent Paintings and Drawings : [catalogue of an Exhibition], September 23-21 October 1978, The Pace Gallery, New York
“Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.”
“Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.”
Source: William Blake
“Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?”
“Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?”
“Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.”
“Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind”
Source: Bridget Riley: recent paintings : September 24-October 23, 2004
“Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.”
Source: What Painting Is
“Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.”
“Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.”
“Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job.”
Source: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
“Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.”
“Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.”
“Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing.”
Source: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
“Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.”
“Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.”
Source: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]