Paint Quotes
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I find it increasingly necessary to express my ideas first in engraving or lithography so that they may develop before I start to paint. Every year my form and expression become more sensitive, and my ideas frequently have to pass through three graphic stages before I can start on the canvas. I can hear you say no, that is impossible because the value of the colors demands quite different treatment from black and white, but it is the inner idea that I try to establish firmly through graphic preparation.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -
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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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 -
I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.
Elsie de Wolfe -
Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.
Evan Rachel Wood -
It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
Paul Gauguin -
Just smile, Max. The paint cannot be stronger than a smile. But it is.
Bill Konigsberg -
How could anyone not want to live when there were so many things to live for? There were rainy nights and wind and the slap of the sea and the moon. There were books to read and pictures to paint and music.
Michelle Magorian
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Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
Russell Banks -
When you get to the bottom, you discover that there is no room for pride. That’s what I paint.
Bram van Velde -
I paint the impossibility of painting.
Bram van Velde -
I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.
Dolly Parton