Paint Quotes
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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
Tituss Burgess -
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.
Andrew Forge
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To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
Edward Rowland Sill -
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.
Alexej von Jawlensky -
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
Willem de Kooning -
Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional.
Kathleen Casey -
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
Steven Wright
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I don't paint, I hit.
Karel Appel -
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.
Claude Monet -
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 -
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
Alice Neel -
My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.
Georges Rouault -
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
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Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions.
Calvin Miller -
The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.
Ed Askew -
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.
Anna Brownell Jameson -
The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
Seth Godin -
I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.
Chantal Joffe -
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.
Walter Keane -
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.
Aristide Maillol -
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.
Claude Monet -
If you can't paint, paint Big.
Audrey Flack