Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Paint the essential character of things.
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I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
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Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.
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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.
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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.
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We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don’t fear the shadows it creates.
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It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again.
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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see
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When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.
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I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.
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Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
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It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.
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I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I had that key idea of the software developer as an artist, once I had that idea, a whole bunch of other ideas flowed from that, because I realized that I need to go study the music industry, I need to study the book publishing and Hollywood and figure out how they do things, why they do them that way, and then I need to borrow, and rearrange, the things that they're doing to fit my industry so that I can invent and create this new industry.
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But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.
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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
