Paint Quotes
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When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.
Zoë Heller
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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.
Norval Morrisseau
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Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Claude Monet
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Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
Russell Banks
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I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.
Chantal Joffe
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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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I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
Nathan Oliveira
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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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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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I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
Edward Rowland Sill
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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
Ethan Hawke
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I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.
Paul Simonon
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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 with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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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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I paint life as I would like it to be.
Norman Rockwell
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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'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
Norman Rockwell
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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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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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All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.
Elizabeth Neel
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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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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