Paint Quotes
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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.
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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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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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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
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There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
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The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.
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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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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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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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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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Vasari has been a trusted friend on my painting journey for the last 12 years. Vasari is hands down the best oil paint on the market thanks to its unique hues, handling properties, purity and density of pigment.
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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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I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
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When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.
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Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything... the moonlight had colour, you could see to paint and be able to appreciate the colour of things.
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
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Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
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Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.
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You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.
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In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.
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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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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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Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with conceptual paint, overlaid with interpretations.
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In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
