Paint Quotes
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There's something so inspiring about being in real locations, where you can feel the tactile qualities from the layer of paint that has been chipping off and the hundreds of years that have been lived in the space.
Rachel Morrison -
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.
Arshile Gorky
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I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.
Tony Bennett -
When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
Winslow Homer -
You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.
Alex Katz -
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
Claude Monet -
If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.
Cecil Rhodes -
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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Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.
Claude Monet -
I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it.
Wolfgang Beltracchi -
God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.
Karen Walker -
There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
Ernest Hemingway -
Art reaches people. That's who I paint for. I have great faith in the guy down the street.
Arnold Friberg -
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.
Juan Gris -
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
Claude Monet -
When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
Pablo Picasso -
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
Thomas Hood -
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.
Morris Graves -
It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.
Elizabeth Streb
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I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.
El Greco -
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
Francis Bacon -
If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso -
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