Paint Quotes
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I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
Tamara Feldman -
Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
Fernando Botero
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I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
Taylor Swift -
I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
Abbi Jacobson -
I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
Fareed Zakaria -
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
Olga Kurylenko -
Paint the essential character of things.
Camille Pissarro -
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 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 -
My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.
Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC -
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 -
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 -
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
Pablo Picasso -
Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann -
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
Yayoi Kusama -
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
Man Ray -
I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.
Amrita Sher-Gil -
Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.
William Blake -
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Mark Steyn -
I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.
John Chamberlain -
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
Barbara Smith -
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