Paint Quotes
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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.
Francis Bacon
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the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
Alice B. Toklas
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You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
Keith Haring
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I will paint for money any time.
Winslow Homer
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I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.
Sara Blakely
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
Auguste Renoir
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
Claude Monet
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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.
Lord Byron
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The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.
Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.
George Bernard Shaw
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Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
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I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right.
Burton Silverman
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Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
Willem de Kooning
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I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
Vincent Van Gogh
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PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.
William Lyon Phelps
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I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.
Will Barnet
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I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see
N.D. Wilson
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God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.
Karen Walker
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
Claude Monet