Paint Quotes
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Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.
Norman Reedus -
Someday she planned to paint he ceiling: Blue, with gold stars on it, whole constellations, and a section of the Milky Way.
Elizabeth Enright
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I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.
Amos Ferguson -
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
John Ruskin -
I love to sing. I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don't want to ever feel like I'm cornered into one expression of creativity because I'm successful at making films or being an actor. I guess it's best to not paint yourself into that corner.
Scarlett Johansson -
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
Salvador Dali -
Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with conceptual paint, overlaid with interpretations.
Bhikkhu Bodhi -
Part of what I'm about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.
Alex Katz
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The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach; so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.
John Ruskin -
Why talk when you can paint?
Milton Avery -
I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.
Chantal Joffe -
If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
Pablo Picasso -
The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.
Albert Pinkham Ryder -
Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino -
Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.
Bill Harry -
Joy emerges from sorrow, and soars on wings far more beautiful than any earthly analogy can paint.
Elizabeth Prentiss -
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
Alice Neel -
I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
Edward Rowland Sill -
Vasari has been a trusted friend on my painting journey for the last 12 years. Vasari is hands down the best oil paint on the market thanks to its unique hues, handling properties, purity and density of pigment.
David Kassan -
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
Claude Monet -
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
Steven Wright