Paint Quotes
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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.
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I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.
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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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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
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If I should have a daughter… I’m gonna paint the solar system on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say ‘oh I know that like the back of my hand.
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I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking for. That's really what matters.
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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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When I feel tired and discouraged and I lie down on the sofa, then I think of the simplest thing I can – a piece of string – and I go in it and paint it. That's the way to keep painting – to create something inside that makes you want to recreate it.
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I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
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During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint." I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.
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I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.
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There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.
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I use pure acetone Nail Polish Remover from Nails Inc. to really strip the nail. It's actually important to dehydrate your nail a little bit to get rid of all of the oil before you put color on; then the color will really stick. Then, I use OPI Bond Aid. It's a liquid dehydrator that you paint onto each nail.
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Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.
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I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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.
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I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
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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.
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You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
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If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.
