Paint Quotes
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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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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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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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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 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'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
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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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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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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
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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 could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.
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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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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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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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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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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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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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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 arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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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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All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
