Paint Quotes
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My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.
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I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.
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I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.
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When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.
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Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
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Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.
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I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.
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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.
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People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.
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I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.
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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
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Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.
