Paint Quotes
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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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The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.
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To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.
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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!
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In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.
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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 had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
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You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
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There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.
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Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.
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I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
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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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Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
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Don't be afraid to paint the world with your most favorite colors.
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If you can't paint, paint Big.
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Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
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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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To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
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I write what I see; I paint what I am.
Etel Adnan -
I paint life as I would like it to be.
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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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If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.
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Paint what you see, not what you know.
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I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.
