Paint Quotes
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I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.
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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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There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only "unchangeable" because you believe that they are.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather watch paint drying. But put me in a room with three people having a hard time, like a character situation, and then you're into a really intense portraiture kind of concept.
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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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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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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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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
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I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
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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'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.
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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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I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.
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I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.
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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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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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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
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The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. 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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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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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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My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it.
