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Quotes about Paint

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535 Written Quotes

Paint what you see, not what you know. Votes: 4

Charles Webster Hawthorne

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Paint what you see and look with your own eyes. Votes: 4

Gilbert Stuart

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Paint something every day. Votes: 3

David Hockney

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Paint ideas, paint thought. Votes: 3

Howard Pyle

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Paint like a pig eats. Votes: 3

Richard Schmid

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Paint faster than you can think. Votes: 3

Alex Katz

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Paint the essential character of things. Votes: 3

Camille Pissarro

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Paint what you like and die happy Votes: 3

Henry Miller

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Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas. Votes: 3

Stephane Mallarme

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Painters must speak through paint, not through words. Votes: 3

Hans Hofmann

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Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you. Votes: 3

Robert Henri

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Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. Votes: 3

Paul Cezanne

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Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? Votes: 3

Alexander McCall Smith

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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. Votes: 3

Robert Genn

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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. Votes: 3

Vincent Van Gogh

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I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead. Votes: 3

M. F. Husain

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Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces. Votes: 3

Stephane Mallarme

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Paint goes a long way in making old look like new. Votes: 3

Candice Olson

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Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers. Votes: 3

Robert Henri

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Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel. Votes: 3

Ben Shahn

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Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now. Votes: 3

Pat Croce

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Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas. Votes: 3

T. S. Eliot

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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint. Votes: 3

Charles Webster Hawthorne

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You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well. Votes: 3

Dave Ramsey

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Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks. Votes: 3

John French Sloan

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Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you. Votes: 3

Robert Henri

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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman. Votes: 3

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at. Votes: 3

Glenn Ligon

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Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. Votes: 3

Oliver Cromwell

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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Votes: 3

Vincent Van Gogh

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The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. Votes: 3

Frida Kahlo

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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. Votes: 3

Fran Lebowitz

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I don't say everything, but I paint everything. Votes: 2

Pablo Picasso

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. Votes: 2

John Singer Sargent

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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Votes: 2

Michelangelo

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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. Votes: 2

Henri Matisse

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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. Votes: 2

Pablo Picasso

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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. Votes: 2

Paul Klee

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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. Votes: 2

Ellen Key

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It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either. Votes: 2

Vincent Van Gogh

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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? Votes: 2

Pablo Picasso

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Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. Votes: 2

Adolf Hitler

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Votes: 2

Henry Ward Beecher

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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. Votes: 2

Pablo Picasso

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A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. Votes: 2

Chester W. Nimitz

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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. Votes: 2

Man Ray

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I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can. Votes: 2

Andy Warhol

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. Votes: 2

Abraham Maslow

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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. Votes: 2

Norman Vincent Peale

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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. Votes: 2

Pablo Picasso

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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. Votes: 2

Pablo Picasso

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An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively. Votes: 2

Julia Cameron

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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest. Votes: 2

Paul Cezanne

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PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures. Votes: 1

William Lyon Phelps

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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. Votes: 1

Frida Kahlo

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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. Votes: 1

Pierre Bonnard

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. Votes: 1

Honore de Balzac

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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. Votes: 1

Danny Kaye

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. Votes: 1

Willem de Kooning

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Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea. Votes: 1

Julia Roberts

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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? Votes: 1

Pablo Picasso

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The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing. Votes: 1

John French Sloan

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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. Votes: 1

Frida Kahlo

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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. Votes: 1

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands. Votes: 1

Danny Fox

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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. Votes: 1

Salvador Dali

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What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith. Votes: 1

Willem de Kooning

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If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all. Votes: 1

Alberto Giacometti

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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing. Votes: 1

Paul Cezanne

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The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want. Votes: 1

George Lucas

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When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they already know. Votes: 1

Paul Strisik

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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours. Votes: 1

Ed Sheeran

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It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are. Votes: 1

Tony Curtis

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Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture. Votes: 1

Marilyn Monroe

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When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up my easel in full sunshine. Votes: 1

Maurice de Vlaminck

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All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school. Votes: 1

David Bailey

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Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento. Votes: 1

Susan Minot

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Look from the blind man's eye.... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others? Votes: 1

Fawad Afzal Khan

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I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. Votes: 1

Bob Dylan

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It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial. Votes: 1

Michael Moritz

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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater. Votes: 1

Harriet Tubman

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I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas. Votes: 1

Louise L. Hay

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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Votes: 1

Maya Angelou

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I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. Votes: 1

Rick Perry

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I paint abstract expressions. Votes: 0

Billy Zane

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I don't paint, I hit. Votes: 0

Karel Appel

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I choose to paint beauty. Votes: 0

Igor Babailov

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I paint my own reality. Votes: 0

Frida Kahlo

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Master water first and then paint. Votes: 0

Joshua L. Goldberg

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Why talk when you can paint? Votes: 0

Milton Avery

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It's an honor to paint cats. Votes: 0

Oliver Johnson

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Since I cannot sing, I paint. Votes: 0

Georgia O'Keeffe

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If you can't paint, paint Big. Votes: 0

Audrey Flack

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Artists who don't paint aren't artists. Votes: 0

Billy Childish

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I paint when I cannot photograph. Votes: 0

Man Ray

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Never paint your wife or your mother. Votes: 0

George W. Bush

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Don't paint the apple; paint the red. Votes: 0

Arthur Lismer

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I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint. Votes: 0

Mackenzie Foy

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Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint. Votes: 0

Princess Diana

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Everyday's a good day when you paint Votes: 0

Bob Ross

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The media paint ugly pictures about you. Votes: 0

Kim Basinger

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Live to paint, don't paint to live. Votes: 0

Walter Darby Bannard

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You can either buy shoes or paint. Votes: 0

Janice Tanton

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I will paint for money any time. Votes: 0

Winslow Homer

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I paint in order not to cry. Votes: 0

Paul Klee

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I paint. I love the visual arts. Votes: 0

Kristin Bauer van Straten

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I paint as if I were Rothschild. Votes: 0

Paul Cezanne

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I paint the walls with his blood. Votes: 0

DMX

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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks. Votes: 0

Bam Margera

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I don't paint nature. I am nature. Votes: 0

Jackson Pollock

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God sends experience to paint men's portraits. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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Even when you paint, you never stop drawing. Votes: 0

Igor Babailov

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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime. Votes: 0

Claude Monet

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I never draw except with brush and paint... Votes: 0

Claude Monet

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'Tis human actions paint the chart of time. Votes: 0

James Montgomery

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He that cannot paint must grind the colors. Votes: 0

J. G. Holland

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I paint flowers to prevent them from dying Votes: 0

Frida Kahlo

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They wore their strange beauty like war paint. Votes: 0

Holly Black

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Tis human actions paint the chart of time. Votes: 0

James Montgomery

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I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint. Votes: 0

Elsie de Wolfe

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The thicker you paint, the more it flows. Votes: 0

John Singer Sargent

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We only have our nervous system to paint. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Why does the blind man's wife paint herself. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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You can paint your soul with any medium. Votes: 0

Jeet Aulakh

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I just can't seem to paint nice things. Votes: 0

Ivan Albright

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I have a fierce desire to paint colour. Votes: 0

Fred Williams

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I paint with my back to the world Votes: 0

Agnes Martin

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I do not paint nature. I am nature. Votes: 0

Jackson Pollock

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I paint flowers so they will not die. Votes: 0

Frida Kahlo

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Life obliges me to do something, so I paint. Votes: 0

Rene Magritte

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Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject. Votes: 0

Jamie Wyeth

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The more I paint the more I like everything. Votes: 0

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint. Votes: 0

Elsie de Wolfe

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Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. Votes: 0

Reginald Heber

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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel. Votes: 0

Josef Albers

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I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen. Votes: 0

Mati Klarwein

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A woman without paint is like food without salt. Votes: 0

Plautus

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I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men. Votes: 0

Fra Angelico

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I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose. Votes: 0

Richard Attenborough

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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity. Votes: 0

Tertullian

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Favorite color to paint my nails is black, always. Votes: 0

Troye Sivan

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To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. Votes: 0

Philip Guston

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I may paint flat, but I don't think flat. Votes: 0

Ralph Fasanella

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Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint. Votes: 0

Georgia O'Keeffe

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I don't paint to live, I live to paint. Votes: 0

Willem de Kooning

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I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow. Votes: 0

Joni Mitchell

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I paint things as they are. I don't comment. Votes: 0

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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If you want to hide it, paint it red. Votes: 0

Bradley Henderson

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Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness. Votes: 0

John Suckling

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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint. Votes: 0

Banksy

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I paint what I think, not what I see. Votes: 0

Pablo Picasso

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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary. Votes: 0

Pablo Picasso

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If you can talk about it, why paint it? Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying. Votes: 0

Drake

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I only feel, but want the power to paint. Votes: 0

Juvenal

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Your style is the way you talk in paint. Votes: 0

Robert Henri

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Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance. Votes: 0

John Marin

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Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that. Votes: 0

Ted Leo

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I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head. Votes: 0

El Greco

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Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it. Votes: 0

John French Sloan

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A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces. Votes: 0

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries. Votes: 0

Neville Brody

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No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly. Votes: 0

Claude Monet

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Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint. Votes: 0

John Marin

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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. Votes: 0

Michelangelo

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When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation. Votes: 0

Pablo Picasso

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All my feelings have the color you desire to paint. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone. Votes: 0

Henri Matisse

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When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes. Votes: 0

Amedeo Modigliani

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I was never one to paint space, I paint air. Votes: 0

Fairfield Porter

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I paint the spirit and soul of what I see. Votes: 0

Brian Froud

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The sky is a canvas, so paint your own life. Votes: 0

Jada Berglund

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I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. Votes: 0

Eleanora Duse

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If I am an angel, paint me with black wings. Votes: 0

Anne Rice

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I would like to paint the way a bird sings. Votes: 0

Claude Monet

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I paint life as I would like it to be, Votes: 0

Norman Rockwell

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If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint. Votes: 0

Pablo Picasso

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I write what I see; I paint what I am. Votes: 0

Etel Adnan

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He best can paint them who shall feel them most. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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In the center was a tiny handprint in red paint. Votes: 0

J.R. Ward

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How many books did Renoir write on how to paint? Votes: 0

Cyril Connolly

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The lion is not so fierce as they paint him. Votes: 0

George Herbert

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Use lots of paint and don't worry, they will make more... Votes: 0

Richard Schmid

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Friends are the artists who paint happy lips on your face. Votes: 0

Richelle E. Goodrich

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In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to. Votes: 0

Beatrice Lillie

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Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush. Votes: 0

Toni Onley

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There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see. Votes: 0

Edouard Manet

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They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork. Votes: 0

Lil Wayne

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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ. Votes: 0

Fra Angelico

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I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers. Votes: 0

John Dyer

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I paint what I see, not what a camera would see. Votes: 0

John Dyer

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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw. Votes: 0

Edvard Munch

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No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another. Votes: 0

Joseph Plaskett

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I like men who paint or write or do something creative. Votes: 0

Olga Kurylenko

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Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you. Votes: 0

Pierre Alechinsky

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First draw dog, then fleas. First paint apple, then worm holes. Votes: 0

Sergei Bongart

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I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Votes: 0

Hans Hofmann

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With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures... Votes: 0

Sun Ra

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I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings... Votes: 0

David Bowie

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Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint. Votes: 0

Emily Carr

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Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code. Votes: 0

Steve Lohr

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You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors. Votes: 0

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again. Votes: 0

Conan O'Brien

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Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books. Votes: 0

Richard Scarry

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I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant. Votes: 0

Fred Williams

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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. Votes: 0

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it. Votes: 0

Edward Hopper

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I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day. Votes: 0

Geoffrey Holder

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All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere. Votes: 0

Maurice Denis

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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree. Votes: 0

Willem de Kooning

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Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint. Votes: 0

Sara Genn

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I do not paint in front of but from within nature. Votes: 0

Arshile Gorky

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I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture. Votes: 0

Mac Miller

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I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint. Votes: 0

Claude Monet

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A brush of kindness can paint a smile on a face. Votes: 0

Robert M. Hensel

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I spilt paint all over the bar, they almost fired me. Votes: 0

The Rev

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I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record. Votes: 0

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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I still love a lot of the guys who just paint Votes: 0

Bill Sienkiewicz

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To paint nature you must be in it a long time. Votes: 0

Vincent Van Gogh

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I'd tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint. Votes: 0

Bat for Lashes

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I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident. Votes: 0

Jackson Pollock

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You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel. Votes: 0

Romare Bearden

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Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child? Votes: 0

Steven Tyler

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I paint the stuff I see when my eyes are closed Votes: 0

Anna Asche

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One must be of one's time and paint what one sees. Votes: 0

Edouard Manet

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A painter paints because he has no time not to paint. Votes: 0

Josef Albers

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I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses. Votes: 0

Ronnie Wood

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To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Peyton

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I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works... Votes: 0

Maurizio Cattelan

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Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone. Votes: 0

Cornelia Funke

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I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic. Votes: 0

Joaquin Sorolla

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I paint what I see and not what others like to see. Votes: 0

Edouard Manet

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I paint what I like, when I like and where I like. Votes: 0

David Hockney

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Today is a new canvas, paint it with all your favorite colors. Votes: 0

Anum Sattar

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Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones. Votes: 0

Arthur Rackham

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Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. Votes: 0

Bill Hicks

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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films. Votes: 0

Nan Goldin

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I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone. Votes: 0

Carl Schmitt

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My job is to paint what I see, not what I know. Votes: 0

J. M. W. Turner

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I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint. Votes: 0

Vincent Van Gogh

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... only darkened trails of rain could paint your face upon a pane... Votes: 0

John Geddes

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I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really. Votes: 0

David Hockney

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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else Votes: 0

Henri Matisse

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Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it. Votes: 0

Dong Kingman

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The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also. Votes: 0

Georges Braque

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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are. Votes: 0

Ethan Hawke

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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on. Votes: 0

Terry Brooks

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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh. Votes: 0

Eugene Delacroix

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If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache Votes: 0

N. C. Wyeth

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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom. Votes: 0

Fareed Zakaria

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As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again. Votes: 0

Max Cannon

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I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight. Votes: 0

Amos Ferguson

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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more! Votes: 0

Claude Monet

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I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can. Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Annaud

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Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on Votes: 0

J. Cole

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In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint. Votes: 0

Vincent Van Gogh

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I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red. Votes: 0

Alexander Calder

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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. Votes: 0

Charles Dudley Warner

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Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that. Votes: 0

Steven Soderbergh

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The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush. Votes: 0

Igor Babailov

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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath Votes: 0

Salvador Dali

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What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint. Votes: 0

Marc Chagall

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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures Votes: 0

Salvador Dali

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I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths. Votes: 0

John Lurie

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The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see. Votes: 0

Milton Resnick

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You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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I don't wake up with naturally sculpted cheekbones - I paint them on! Votes: 0

Tyra Banks

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You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it. Votes: 0

Harold Town

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With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. Votes: 0

Joni Mitchell

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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. Votes: 0

Salvador Dali

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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive. Votes: 0

Robert Henri

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Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily. Votes: 0

Pierre de Ronsard

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I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love. Votes: 0

John Dyer

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We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go. Votes: 0

Nikos Kazantzakis

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I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting. Votes: 0

Paul Simonon

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I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint. Votes: 0

Helen Frankenthaler

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None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men. Votes: 0

Pavitraa Parthasarathy

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I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint... Votes: 0

Claude Monet

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I didn't paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy's living room, Votes: 0

Ralph Fasanella

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It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one. Votes: 0

Igor Babailov

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Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint. Votes: 0

Frank Bruno

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The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to. Votes: 0

Frida Kahlo

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It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. Votes: 0

David Hockney

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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it. Votes: 0

Steven Wright

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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to. Votes: 0

Norman Rockwell

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Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit. Votes: 0

Robert Henri

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I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it. Votes: 0

Wolfgang Beltracchi

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I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up. Votes: 0

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid? Votes: 0

Rob Lowe

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Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it. Votes: 0

Nipsey Hussle

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If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her. Votes: 0

Eugene Delacroix

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What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint. Votes: 0

Joyce Cary

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It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. Votes: 0

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live, Votes: 0

Margrethe II of Denmark

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The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... Votes: 0

Keith Haring

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I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see Votes: 0

N.D. Wilson

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I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live. Votes: 0

Margrethe II of Denmark

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I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies. Votes: 0

Edouard Manet

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The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures. Votes: 0

Harold Rosenberg

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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. Votes: 0

Haruki Murakami

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Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. Votes: 0

Richard Linklater

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I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure. Votes: 0

Nathan Oliveira

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I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint. Votes: 0

Bob Ross

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When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up. Votes: 0

Rita Ora

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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself. Votes: 0

Alberto Giacometti

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I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work Votes: 0

Bill Sienkiewicz

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Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals. Votes: 0

Bill Harry

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A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. Votes: 0

Leopold Stokowski

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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. Votes: 0

David Hockney

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Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house. Votes: 0

Austin O'Malley

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The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint. Votes: 0

Bill Johnson

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I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up. Votes: 0

Dimebag Darrell

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Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first. Votes: 0

Richard Schmid

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I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home. Votes: 0

Edward Rowland Sill

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If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally. Votes: 0

Raphael Soyer

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I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry. Votes: 0

Jenim Dibie

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I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood. Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. Votes: 0

Henri Matisse

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If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome! Votes: 0

Sergei Bongart

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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. Votes: 0

Andre Malraux

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Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface, Votes: 0

Donald Judd

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The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually. Votes: 0

David Hockney

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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. Votes: 0

Edvard Munch

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address. Votes: 0

Leo Rosten

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People are so busy polishing their past, that they forget to paint their future. Votes: 0

Himanshu Vassanpal

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Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others. Votes: 0

John Kurtz

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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. Votes: 0

Gertrude Stein

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If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age Votes: 0

Karel Appel

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I learned to play the instruments of war, he said, and paint in blood. Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art. Votes: 0

Edi Rama

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I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see. Votes: 0

Leonor Fini

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It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on. Votes: 0

Julian Eltinge

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There is never a question of what to paint but only how to paint. Votes: 0

Robert Ryman

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When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate. Votes: 0

Jean-Paul Riopelle

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I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one. Votes: 0

Gustave Courbet

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If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is. Votes: 0

Bob Ross

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No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with. Votes: 0

John Singer Sargent

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I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint. Votes: 0

Jim Henson

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I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house. Votes: 0

Willa Ford

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If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. Votes: 0

Edward Hopper

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I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not. Votes: 0

George Crabbe

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When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots. Votes: 0

Edward Ruscha

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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can on it. Votes: 0

Danny Kaye

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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint. Votes: 0

Tony Curtis

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One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. Votes: 0

Georgia O'Keeffe

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My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it. Votes: 0

Romare Bearden

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At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. Votes: 0

Vladimir Nabokov

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I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me. Votes: 0

Franz Kline

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I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint. Votes: 0

Kimberly Novosel

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He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long. Votes: 0

Horace

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I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student. Votes: 0

Tony Bennett

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To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art. Votes: 0

Gerhard Richter

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You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer. Votes: 0

Drew Magary

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For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. Votes: 0

Maxwell Bodenheim

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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue. Votes: 0

Jeet Aulakh

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I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too Votes: 0

Rembrandt

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Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii. Votes: 0

Tony Bennett

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The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds? Votes: 0

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said. Votes: 0

Jackson Pollock

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I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces. Votes: 0

Frederick Varley

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Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die. Votes: 0

Yoko Ono

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I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint... Votes: 0

Bruce Springsteen

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I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality. Votes: 0

Meher Baba

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I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. Votes: 0

Raoul Dufy

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The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it. Votes: 0

Mark Russell

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You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. Votes: 0

William F. Buckley, Jr.

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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit. Votes: 0

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music. Votes: 0

Markus Zusak

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Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall? Votes: 0

Sam Ewing

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Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane. Votes: 0

Walter Keane

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Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something. Votes: 0

E.A. Bucchianeri

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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness ... Votes: 0

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures. Votes: 0

Jensen Karp

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If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy. Votes: 0

Bruno Tonioli

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See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality. Votes: 0

Keith Haring

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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own... Votes: 0

Paul Gauguin

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Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject. Votes: 0

Robert Motherwell

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Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. Votes: 0

Henri Rousseau

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Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. Votes: 0

Marie Laurencin

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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me. Votes: 0

Pablo Picasso

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I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff. Votes: 0

Abbie Cornish

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Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. Votes: 0

James Howell

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There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out. Votes: 0

Robert Plant

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It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Streb

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What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. Votes: 0

Edward Hopper

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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. Votes: 0

Henri Matisse

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If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it. Votes: 0

Nelson Shanks

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I have two pairs of eyes " one to paint and one to take photographs. Votes: 0

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black. Votes: 0

Ben Shahn

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O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky. Votes: 0

Henri Matisse

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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. Votes: 0

Matthew Prior

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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go. Votes: 0

Nikos Kazantzakis

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After a thousand watercolors you will find you have fallen in love with paper and paint. Votes: 0

Rex Brandt

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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. Votes: 0

Pablo Picasso

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In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back. Votes: 0

Rolonda Watts

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I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously. Votes: 0

Howard Hodgkin

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We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things. Votes: 0

Leon Battista Alberti

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Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. Votes: 0

Russell Banks

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If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years. Votes: 0

John F. Carlson

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I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. Votes: 0

Georgia O'Keeffe

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It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing. Votes: 0

E. J. Hughes

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Let me tell you, you can paint pictures and get people indicted for just about anything. Votes: 0

Al D'Amato

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It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak. Votes: 0

Ezra Pound

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To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one. Votes: 0

J. E. H. MacDonald

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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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When I paint to please other people I tend to lose the free spirit creative edge... Votes: 0

Ted Martinez

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You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell. Votes: 0

Mitch Harper

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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running. Votes: 0

Larry Wall

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I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously. Votes: 0

Howard Hodgkin

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To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest. Votes: 0

Henry Miller

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Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is. Votes: 0

Gerald Brommer

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I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill. Votes: 0

Joe Torre

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I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them. Votes: 0

Justin Beckett

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I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist. Votes: 0

Zac Efron

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I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness. Votes: 0

Douglas Lockwood

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In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash. Votes: 0

Jasper Fforde

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I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life. Votes: 0

Tony Bennett

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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise Votes: 0

Robert Genn

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I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls... Votes: 0

Meher Baba

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It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist. Votes: 0

Kate Jackson

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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit. Votes: 0

Jack Levine

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Sing will all the voices of the mountain, paint with all the colors of the wind Votes: 0

Pocahontas

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It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world. Votes: 0

Darren Shan

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The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece Votes: 0

Dan Brown

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I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined. Votes: 0

Andre Dubus

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I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves. Votes: 0

Oskar Kokoschka

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Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit. Votes: 0

Tyson Chandler

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Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with. Votes: 0

Oprah Winfrey

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A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it. Votes: 0

Ricardo Antonio Chavira

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He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are." Votes: 0

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content. Votes: 0

James Rosenquist

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The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint. Votes: 0

Reggie Jackson

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I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed. Votes: 0

Chantal Joffe

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I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places Votes: 0

Lemn Sissay

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The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint. Votes: 0

Reggie Jackson

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I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day. Votes: 0

Jonathan Winters

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Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. Votes: 0

Danny Kaye

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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it. Votes: 0

Randy Pausch

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I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to. Votes: 0

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush. Votes: 0

Daniel Dennett

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Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water in order to learn how to swim. Votes: 0

Edouard Manet

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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. Votes: 0

William Congreve

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I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint. Votes: 0

Arjun Rampal

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You and I could paint the sky together. As the world goes by, we'll go on forever. Votes: 0

Kaskade

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I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery. Votes: 0

Douglas Lockwood

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I wanna be free. Free to scream, free to bathe, free to paint my toes all day. Votes: 0

Shanice

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I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint. Votes: 0

Frida Kahlo

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If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible. Votes: 0

Cecil Rhodes

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You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them. Votes: 0

Joe Dante

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Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. Votes: 0

George Clooney

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One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it. Votes: 0

Vincent Van Gogh

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I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches. Votes: 0

Judith Ellen Levy

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I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out. Votes: 0

Kathe Kollwitz

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Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there? Votes: 0

Ronnie Wood

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Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people. Votes: 0

George Edward Moore

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Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars Votes: 0

Susan Polis Schutz

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No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs. Votes: 0

Charlie Hunnam

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If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind. Votes: 0

Bob Ross

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The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives. Votes: 0

Louise Hay

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Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. Votes: 0

Samuel Butler

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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. Votes: 0

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly. Votes: 0

Anthony Hopkins

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What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms. Votes: 0

Georg Baselitz

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I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it. Votes: 0

Arnold Friberg

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I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. Votes: 0

Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

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Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD. Votes: 0

Drake

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It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day... Votes: 0

Andrew McDermott

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I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about. Votes: 0

Bubba Sparxxx

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I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. Votes: 0

Steven Wright

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I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul. Votes: 0

Alexej von Jawlensky

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The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about. Votes: 0

Lee Krasner

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As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. Votes: 0

Ashley Jensen

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I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph Votes: 0

Man Ray

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you give me fever from miles around ill pick you up in my car and well paint the toown Votes: 0

Michael Jackson

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All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Neel

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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint. Votes: 0

Wayne Thiebaud

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You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do. Votes: 0

Milton Resnick

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If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me Votes: 0

Norah Jones

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What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. Votes: 0

Raoul Dufy

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the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

Alice B. Toklas

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This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house thatâs on fire.

Chuck Palahniuk

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I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

Edward Hopper

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Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint.

Francis Bacon

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My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

Georges Rouault

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If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

Horace Pippin

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You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun.

Julia de Burgos

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Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

Pablo Picasso

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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

Ralph Allen

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They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

Ringo Starr

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You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

Sara Genn

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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

Tanith Lee

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Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

Franz Marc

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You might be a redneck if your vehicle has a two-tone paint job - primer red and primer gray.

Jeff Foxworthy

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I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.

Leland Bell

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My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

Claes Oldenburg

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I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

Douglas Lockwood

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The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

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I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

Burton Silverman

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Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

Joey Comeau

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The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

Joseph Raffael

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Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.

Luke Hemmings

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Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Arshile Gorky

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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

Banksy

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If I'm feeling tired, I just say, 'I'm going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!'

Emma Watson

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Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.

George Luks

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Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

James Whistler

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I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

Joni Mitchell

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Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

Julian Green

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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

Paul Cezanne

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I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.

Peter Paul Rubens

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My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

Robert Gober

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Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.

Stephen Beal

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Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

William Merritt Chase

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Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

Howard Pyle

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I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

Tom Six

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I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

Tyne Daly

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What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

Audrey Flack

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I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

Gerhard Richter

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To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

Hannah More

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I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

Marya Mannes

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I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

Neil Welliver

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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

Salvador Dali

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Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.

Zygmunt Bauman

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If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

Georgia O'Keeffe

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If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

Harvey Dunn

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I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

J. M. W. Turner

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There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

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If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.

Xenophanes

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The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.

Robert Henri

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Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Robert Indiana

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I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

Alice Neel

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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Chuck Berry

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I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

Pablo Picasso

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To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

Robert Henri

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To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

Samuel Johnson

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Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

Oriana Fallaci

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You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.

Andre Lhote

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If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.

Goran Ivanisevic

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When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Luc Tuymans

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To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

Umberto Boccioni

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It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

William Merritt Chase

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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

Al McGuire

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I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

Chath Piersath

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Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

Hiroko Sakai

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When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

Michael Craig-Martin

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I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

Alice Neel

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Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes.

Dave Barry

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It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

Paul Gauguin

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(Art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

Robert Rauschenberg

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I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

Wanda Koop

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When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.

ZoÃ« Heller

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Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

Erin Morgenstern

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You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

Faith Ringgold

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A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

Juliana Hatfield

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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

Lawrence Durrell

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The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint The greats were great because they paint a lot

Macklemore

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Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

Ralph Ellison

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The way that I like to fight is I like to paint myself into a corner and so the only way is for me to win.

Ronda Rousey

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What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

Gilbert Stuart

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I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

Jacques-Louis David

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I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

Jeffrey Smart

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I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.

Peter Cushing

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I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

Philip Guston

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It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing.

Roger de Grey

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When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

Winslow Homer

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But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Alan Bean

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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Alexander Pope

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Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

Azar Nafisi

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Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.

Cory Trepanier

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I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

Joaquin Sorolla

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The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

Liza Campbell

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I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

Pele

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Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

Alex Katz

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The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.

Eric Maisel

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One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

Henri Michaux

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Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

Todd Phillips

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Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

Vincent Van Gogh

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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

Brian Eno

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Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

Emily Carr

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It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.

Jenny Downham

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Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

John F. Carlson

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Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

Robert Henri

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People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

Roger de Grey

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As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

Vincent Van Gogh

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The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

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The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

Woodrow Wilson

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It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

Agnes Martin

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I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer.

Andrew Ferguson

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That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter.

Bill Laimbeer

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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

Claude Monet

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You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis.

Dave Barry

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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

Igor Babailov

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I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.

Marge Piercy

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I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

Mary Grandpre

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I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

Andy Warhol

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I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk.

Marc Chagall

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I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

Pablo Picasso

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If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

Robert Bateman

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If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

Vincent Van Gogh

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I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much,

Fernando Botero

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When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

Henri Matisse

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Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.

Hudson Taylor

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I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

Martin Kippenberger

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You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

Robert M. Pirsig

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I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

Wanda Koop

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If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

Wayne Thiebaud

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We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there.

Bill Laimbeer

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Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

Charles Webster Hawthorne

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If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too.

Edouard Manet

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To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its general value.

Harvey Dunn

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Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to...

James Elkins

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The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

Norman Rockwell

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We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

Amy Tan

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Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.

Christopher Willard

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The artist must paint as he would speak. I donât want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

David Alfaro Siqueiros

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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

Francis Bacon

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If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

Franz Kline

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Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond ...

Grandma Moses

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One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.

Grantland Rice

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I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi.

Julia Roberts

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Before [becoming an actor] I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

Norman Reedus

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Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

Alex Katz

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Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

Bob Proctor

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You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

Brian Eno

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I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.

Grace Gealey

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I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

Joni Mitchell

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I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

Lana Del Rey

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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Place a name upon the night One to set your heart alight And to make the darkness bright Paint the sky with stars.

Enya

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Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

Frank Capra

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A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.

Clifford Stoll

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There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.

Eric Weiner

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You might be a redneck if you've ever hauled a can of paint to the top of a water tower to defend your sister's honor.

Jeff Foxworthy

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Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to Las Vegas

Paul Samuelson

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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.

Samuel L. Jackson

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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.

Takeshi Kitano

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Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Wayne Thiebaud

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I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

Adolph Gottlieb

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George Clooney is on the program tonight. Next week at this time I will be in a hardware store watching them mix paint.

David Letterman

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Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

Romare Bearden

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The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.

Thomas Kinkade

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When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Jackson Pollock

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Michelangelo's girlfriend, who said to Angelo, Forget the paint - let's put a mirror on the ceiling. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

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The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories " or you can use it to paint dreams.

Robert Breault

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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

Salvador Dali

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By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Seth Godin

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The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

Seth Godin

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Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

Julius Lester

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I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

Lucian Freud

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It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

Michele Cassou

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I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Peter Dinklage

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As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.

Semir Zeki

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Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.

Steven Wright

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I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

William Dobell

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If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.

Cennino Cennini

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The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Emil Nolde

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I love the look of buffed nails. They look neat and chic without actually having to paint your nails-and it takes no time!

Joy Bryant

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I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

Lee Iacocca

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A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

Vincent Van Gogh

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A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

Winston Churchill

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In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

Chris Ofili

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If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens.

Yoko Ono

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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

Danny Gregory

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Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

Gerhard Richter

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If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

Stephen King

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It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

Emily Carr

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I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

Francesco Clemente

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I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.

Jack White

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Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

Winston Churchill

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As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.

Alan Bean

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Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

Fran Lebowitz

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Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

John Fowles

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People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

Anna Brownell Jameson

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When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.

Jason Shawn Alexander

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People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

Madeleine L'Engle

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Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.

Pierre Soulages

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I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn't paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

Robert Toth

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If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

David Hockney

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The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.

Ed Askew

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See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

Helen Van Wyk

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Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train.

John French Sloan

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My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.

Joan Mitchell

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You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.

Mark Gonzales

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When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.

Paula Scher

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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

Francis Bacon

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To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

Lin Yutang

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Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

William Shakespeare

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If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.

Bill Jay

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Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

Georg Baselitz

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Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

Jon Pareles

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As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.

Milton Resnick

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Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

Jane Seymour

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I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.

Pierce Brosnan

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If I had a Volkswagon Beetle. I'd paint the front to resemble Glenn Langdon in War Of The Colossal Beast. Why? Two words: The Ladies.

Dana Gould

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I can't even find the perfect brush so I can paint what's going through my mind. Racing 'gainst myself but I'm a couple steps behind.

Drake

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It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.

E. J. Hughes

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I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

lecrae

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And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.

Herman Melville

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Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

Vernon Howard

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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

Paul Cezanne

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It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.

Helen Van Wyk

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I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

Paolo Veronese

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That's the new picture of the good life that I want to paint - living the way that God created us to live. That's what the good life is.

Trip Lee

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You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.

Arshile Gorky

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I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

Euan Uglow

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Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

Antony Sher

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The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

Edward Burne-Jones

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Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in!

George H. W. Bush

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A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.

Keith Shackleton

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To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

Philip Guston

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If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't!

Rudyard Kipling

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Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.

Clementine Hunter

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God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth...

Eberhard Arnold

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I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.

Elsie de Wolfe

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I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas...

Louise Hay

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It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

Nelson Shanks

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We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

Wallace Tripp

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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

Agnes Martin

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But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.

Alexandre Dumas

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I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

Gustav Klimt

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Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.

Jasper Johns

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The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.

Jay-Z

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It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

Miranda July

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When they shall paint our sockets gray And light us like a stinking fuse, Remember that we once could say, Yesterday we had a world to lose.

Stanley Kunitz

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when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.

Sybil Marshall

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The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

James Elkins

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I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist

Leonid Afremov

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Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

Robert Townsend

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You're really not right, are you? Yeah, I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but chromosomally damaging. (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

Walter Scott

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I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

William Dobell

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I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.

Chris Mars

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When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working...

Claude Monet

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It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

Nancy Werlin

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I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much.

Pierre Soulages

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It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

Richard Schmid

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As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

Denzel Washington

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I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.

Francoise Gilot

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I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.

Jackson Browne

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In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.

Kehinde Wiley

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People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

Paul Strisik

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Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I wanted to share so I learnt how to write and kept going. If I could sing or paint, I would.

Sefi Atta

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If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

Brandon Sanderson

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I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

Chantal Joffe