Paint Quotes
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What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.
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When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.
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I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.
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If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.
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I paint life as I would like it to be.
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The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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 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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I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.
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There was such a wonderful setting of the moon this morning, the yellow moon against little pink clouds, and the mountains a pure deep blue viewed from his Swiss farmhouse, quite glorious, I would so have liked to paint. But it was cold, even my window was frozen, although I had kept the fire in all night.
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I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.
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I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.
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I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.
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I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what he is going to do. What he cares about is that he follows the music. You see, we are painters. We paint the music with our feet.
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My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it.
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All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.
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I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.
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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
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Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
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The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.
