Paint Quotes
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I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
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You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.
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Joy emerges from sorrow, and soars on wings far more beautiful than any earthly analogy can paint.
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I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.
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When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.
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I paint in order not to cry.
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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
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Just smile, Max. The paint cannot be stronger than a smile. But it is.
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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 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 had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
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I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
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I paint life as I would like it to be.
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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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How could anyone not want to live when there were so many things to live for? There were rainy nights and wind and the slap of the sea and the moon. There were books to read and pictures to paint and music.
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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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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
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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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I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart
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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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Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.
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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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Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well.
