Paint Quotes
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
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See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
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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.
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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.
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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
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Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.
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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.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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.
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the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
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I will paint for money any time.
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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.
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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.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.
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Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.
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PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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.
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One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.
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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.
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It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.
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I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
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Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.
