Paint Quotes
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When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.
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If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
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I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.
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Paint what you see, not what you know.
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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 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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If you can't paint, paint Big.
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I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.
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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 knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. But I was very careful to bury them deeply, deeply in the plaster and paint over them. I didn't want anybody to directly access them, and that's gradually changed for me.
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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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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
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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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To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
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To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.
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I don't paint, I hit.
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Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.
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Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.
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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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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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When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.
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Just smile, Max. The paint cannot be stronger than a smile. But it is.
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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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Joy emerges from sorrow, and soars on wings far more beautiful than any earthly analogy can paint.
