Paint Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
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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.
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I paint life as I would like it to be.
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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.
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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.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
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I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.
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I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.
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I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
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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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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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Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.
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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.
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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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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.
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Just smile, Max. The paint cannot be stronger than a smile. But it is.
