Paint Quotes
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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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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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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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Why talk when you can paint?
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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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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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If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.
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And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?
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I don't paint, I hit.
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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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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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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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To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
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Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
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If you can't paint, paint Big.
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It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I ever felt like I was helping someone paint. They had a very clear idea of what they wanted it to look like, sound like, be like. So, there was no operating outside the box. The only way to help him was to try to really be a part of his imagination and try to make it happen. He's a super kind and loving person. So, you wanted to help him. It just was none of my normal ways of helping a director work at all. So, it was a unique experience for me that way.
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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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To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.
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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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You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
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Joy emerges from sorrow, and soars on wings far more beautiful than any earthly analogy can paint.
