Paint Quotes
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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 paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
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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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If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.
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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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And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?
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The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.
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If you can't paint, paint Big.
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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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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I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.
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Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.
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I don't paint, I hit.
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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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I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.
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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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When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.
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It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
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In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.
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To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
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To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.
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Joy emerges from sorrow, and soars on wings far more beautiful than any earthly analogy can paint.
