Paint Quotes
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
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I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.
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You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish to paint; start quickly, move the brush, follow straight what you see before you, as the buzzard swoops down when the hare jumps out. If you hesitate one moment, it is gone.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
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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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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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I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
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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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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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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
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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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I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.
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I find it increasingly necessary to express my ideas first in engraving or lithography so that they may develop before I start to paint. Every year my form and expression become more sensitive, and my ideas frequently have to pass through three graphic stages before I can start on the canvas. I can hear you say no, that is impossible because the value of the colors demands quite different treatment from black and white, but it is the inner idea that I try to establish firmly through graphic preparation.
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You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
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Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it.
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If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.
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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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If you can't paint, paint Big.
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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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To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.
