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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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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To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 don't say everything, but I paint everything.
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He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
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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 start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
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Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.
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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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If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
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Ultimately, it doesn't matter to the world whether you paint or dance or write. The world will probably get by without the product of your efforts. But that is not the point. The point is what the inner process of following your creative impulses will do to you. It is clearly about process. Love the work, love the process. Our fascination will pull our attention forward. That, also, will fascinate the viewer.
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I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.
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...Michelangelo was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.
