Paint Quotes
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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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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
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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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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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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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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I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race... If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...
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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 could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.
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If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
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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'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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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
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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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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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.
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The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.
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Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again.
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
