Paint Quotes
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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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The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.
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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 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 find it increasingly necessary to express my ideas first in engraving or lithography so that they may develop before I start to paint. Every year my form and expression become more sensitive, and my ideas frequently have to pass through three graphic stages before I can start on the canvas. I can hear you say no, that is impossible because the value of the colors demands quite different treatment from black and white, but it is the inner idea that I try to establish firmly through graphic preparation.
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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
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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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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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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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I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
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I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.
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Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.
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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
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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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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.
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I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.
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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
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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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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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My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it.
