Paint Quotes
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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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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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I write what I see; I paint what I am.
Etel Adnan -
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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And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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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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Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.
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I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul. Figuratively speaking, it was like this: In my heart I felt as if there were an organ, which I had to sound. And nature, which I saw before me, only prompted me. And that was a key that unlocked this organ and made it sound.. .They are songs without words.
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.
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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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Why talk when you can paint?
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It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.
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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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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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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
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In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.
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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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Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.
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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.
