Paint Quotes
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Willem de Kooning -
I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.
William Morris Hunt -
I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.
Claude Monet -
Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
Auguste Renoir -
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 -
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
Morris Graves
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In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.
Owen Wister -
I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I will paint for money any time.
Winslow Homer -
Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.
KAWS -
We defended him as hard as we could; but he made a lot of tough shots in the paint against us.
Anthony Lewis -
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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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.
Salvador Dali -
It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.
Kate Jackson -
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
Willem de Kooning -
Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag -
It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures.
Salvador Dali -
If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache
N. C. Wyeth
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It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
Willem de Kooning -
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.
William Merritt Chase -
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
Auguste Renoir -
I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.
Sara Blakely