Paint Quotes
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Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
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He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
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One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.
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The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.
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Don't paint the apple; paint the red.
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
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When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.
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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.
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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.
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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
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You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
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If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
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Don't be afraid to paint the world with your most favorite colors.
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When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.
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The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
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I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. But I was very careful to bury them deeply, deeply in the plaster and paint over them. I didn't want anybody to directly access them, and that's gradually changed for me.
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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
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When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.
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The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.
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How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.
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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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Why talk when you can paint?
