Definition of Paint

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Definition of Paint

Paint

To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.

To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.

Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.

To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.

To color one's face by way of beautifying it.

A pigment or coloring substance.

The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.

A cosmetic; rouge.

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Paint Quotations

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
Steven Wright

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali

Paint Translations

paint in Danish is male, farve
paint in Dutch is verven, kleuren, schilderen
paint in Finnish is maalata
paint in French is couleur, peignons, peindre, peins, peignez
paint in German is anmalen, malen, Farbe, malen, anstreichen, Farbe
paint in Italian is dipingere, tinta
paint in Portuguese is pintura
paint in Spanish is pintar, pintura

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