Paint Quotes
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it.
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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.
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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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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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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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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache
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Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
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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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I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
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My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.
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I spilt paint all over the bar, they almost fired me.
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I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.
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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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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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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 knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.
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If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
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You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.
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Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor.
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If you're not a full-time missionary with a missionary badge pinned on your coat, now is the time to paint one on your heart-painted, as Paul said, 'not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God.'
