Paint Quotes
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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
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I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.
Burt Young
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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.'
Neil L. Andersen
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If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.
Cecil Rhodes
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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
Nan Goldin
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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.
Nicholas Sparks
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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.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
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Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?
Thomas Hood
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What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
Raoul Dufy
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Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
Russell Banks
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Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.
Luke Hemmings
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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
Auguste Renoir
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One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
Vincent Van Gogh
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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso
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I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.
Burton Silverman
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I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
Claude Monet
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
Claude Monet
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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.
Claude Monet
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It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.
Elizabeth Streb
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It would be a sad thing for an artist if he knew how to paint. – so sad. An artist paints because it is a challenge to him – it is like trying to twist the devil. If you overcome it, there is no sport left. I don't even like to talk about painting. It is impossible to talk about painting because I don't know what it is. If I knew what it was I would get out a patent and then no one else would be able to paint.
Arshile Gorky
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Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.
Steve Albini Big Black
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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.
William S. Burroughs
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Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.
Walter Keane
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The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'
William Shatner