Paint Quotes
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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.
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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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He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
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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.
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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.
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About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.
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I spilt paint all over the bar, they almost fired me.
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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.
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If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.
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I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.
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If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache
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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
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If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
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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?
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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
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I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
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If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.
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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.
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I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.
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My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.
