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.
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I paint in order not to cry.
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I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
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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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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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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 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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Just smile, Max. The paint cannot be stronger than a smile. But it is.
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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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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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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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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
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I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart
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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
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I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
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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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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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Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
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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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Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
