Paint Quotes
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What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it..........but this is how math is taught and so in the eyes of most of us it becomes the equivalent of watching paint dry. While the paintings of the great masters are readily available, the math of the great masters is locked away.
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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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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
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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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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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Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it.
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It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.
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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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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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There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
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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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Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
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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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I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.
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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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All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.
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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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My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it.
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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.
