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 never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's wear in the Northeast and wanted to investigate manufacturing in Asia. In 1972 he sent me to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for four months. I'm convinced it was his way of getting me into business, rather than letting me be a hippie.
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Watch the subtleties of the mentor.
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Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.
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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
