Paint Quotes
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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.
William Dobell
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Paint what you see, not what you know.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.
Thomas Kinkade
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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.
John Ruskin
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I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
Edward Rowland Sill
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I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart
Raoul Dufy
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Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well.
Ben Eine
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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.
Thomas Eakins
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I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.
William Dobell
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Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.
Danny Fox
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Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
Ezra Pound
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
Claude Monet
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I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.
Elsie de Wolfe
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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
Paul Gauguin
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Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds, This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.
Stephen Spender
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I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.
Paul Simonon
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I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
Norman Rockwell
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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
Walter Darby Bannard
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I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.
Elsie de Wolfe
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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.
Carlos Gavito
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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
Ethan Hawke
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I paint the impossibility of painting.
Bram van Velde