Paint Quotes
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There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
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In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.
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I write what I see; I paint what I am.
Etel Adnan -
I don't know why people don't paint more warthogs. Warthogs are fantastic. They have the most marvelous faces, like cracked mud with tusks. And the eyelashes! Like many otherwise hideous animals, they have truly spectacular eyelashes. But nooo, it's always the charismatic mammals, like foxes and wolves and tigers. Have you ever smelled a fox? Believe me, the warthog produces a light, airy fragrance suitable for the home or office compared to a fox. Um. What was I saying again?
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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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Someday she planned to paint he ceiling: Blue, with gold stars on it, whole constellations, and a section of the Milky Way.
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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
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If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.
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I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.
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I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.
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Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
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Don't paint the apple; paint the red.
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I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.
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I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics
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With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.
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Why talk when you can paint?
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.
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When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.
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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.
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You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
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Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in one's work.
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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.
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There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
