Paint Quotes
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
Fareed Zakaria
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A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
Socrates
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
Barbara Smith
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If England was what England seems,
An not the England of our dreams,
But only putty, brass, an' paint,
'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!
Rudyard Kipling
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I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race... If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...
Cecil Rhodes
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I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I do have a dream, a tableau of the bathing place of La Grenouillère, for which I've done some bad pochades (sketches), but it is a dream. Renoir, who have just spent a couple of months here, also wants to paint this subject.
Claude Monet
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If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann
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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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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso
