Paint Quotes
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It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all these guys. Why waste your time, because most likely you're not going to be on that level anyway.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.
Arnold Friberg
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He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
J. G. Holland
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I spilt paint all over the bar, they almost fired me.
James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold
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I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi.
Julia Roberts
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If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache
N. C. Wyeth
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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.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
Willem de Kooning
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If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
Willem de Kooning
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It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures.
Salvador Dali
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The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
Seth Godin
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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.
Margaret Keane
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Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.
Paul Lynde
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I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.
Jack White The White Stripes
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
Francis Bacon
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I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.
Alexej von Jawlensky
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I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
Amanda Lee Williford
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Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
Arthur Rackham
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I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.
El Greco
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To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?
Remy de Gourmont
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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
Pablo Picasso
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My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.
Georges Rouault
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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
Terry Brooks
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Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.
Thomas Kinkade