Paint Quotes
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I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
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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 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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Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it.
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Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.
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If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
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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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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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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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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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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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If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.
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I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
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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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Part of what I'm about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.
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It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.
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I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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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I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it.
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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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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
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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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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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Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.
