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.
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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?
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He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
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Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions.
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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.
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It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.
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I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
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The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?
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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
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I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
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First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.
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If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
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If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.
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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
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The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.
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Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.
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I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather watch paint drying. But put me in a room with three people having a hard time, like a character situation, and then you're into a really intense portraiture kind of concept.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.
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At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.
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I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.
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When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
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There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.
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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
