Paint Quotes - Page 15

• The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

  Mark Twain

  Laughing, Together, Stories

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”, Library of America

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• He's been out for a while," she said. "You ready to take a break?" Hopper could exist in this living form or be transformed into a small statue, which helped avoid uncomfortable questions when people came by. Only she could transform him though. "Yeah. He keeps trying to eat my paints. And I don't want him to watch me kiss you goodbye.

  Richelle Mead

  Goodbye, Kissing, People

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.8, Penguin

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• You look ridiculous,” Wren said. “What?” “That shirt.” It was a Hello Kitty shirt from eighth or ninth grade. Hello Kitty dressed as a superhero. It said SUPER CAT on the back, and Wren had added an H with fabric paint. The shirt was cropped too short to begin with, and it didn’t really fit anymore. Cath pulled it down self-consciously. “Cath!” her dad shouted from downstairs. “Phone.” Cath picked up her cell phone and looked at it “He must mean the house phone,” Wren said. “Who calls the house phone?” “Probably 2005. I think it wants its shirt back.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dad, Mean, Cat

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.521, St. Martin's Griffin

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• He looked at her levelly. There was something in his eyes, a sort of quizzical admiration; she wondered if it was simply admiration of Jessamine’s looks. “No,” he said. “No, even though you are the perfect picture of Jessamine, I can see Tessa through it somehow as if, if I were to scrape away a layer of paint, there would be my Tessa underneath.” “I am not your Tessa either.” The light sparkling in his eyes dimmed. “Fair enough,” he said. “I suppose you are not.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Light, Perfect

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• Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.

  Rick Riordan

  Ideas, Hull, Giants

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• Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.

  Laini Taylor

  Eye, Darkness Within, Light

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• Brand planning must continue to paint a vivid description of the consumer today. The challenge is that it can feel like this picture changes daily. Planning's job is to help separate the temporary shifts from foundational understanding that underpins overall behaviour.

  James W. Moseley

  Jobs, Business, Understanding

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• The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

  Max Nordau

  Dance, Writing, Artist

  Max Simon Nordau (1895). “Degeneration”, London, Heinemann

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• We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.

  Warren Buffett

  Future, Cutting, Trying

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

  Mark Steyn

  History, Half, Morbid

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• When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Passion, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Country, Pain, Patriotic

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• It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in the world today than there was one thousand years ago. One might arguably suggest that the opposite is true. I seek to paint no idyll of the worlds before historical capitalism. They were worlds of little liberty, little equality, and little fraternity. The only question is whether historical capitalism represented progress in these regards, or regression.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Mean, Self, Years

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.100, Verso

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• Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Hero, Men, Light

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• That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the Hindu paintings? All sorts of grotesque and unnatural figures. What do you see in a Hindu temple? A Chaturbhanga Narayana or some such thing. But take into consideration any Italian picture or Grecian statue-what a study of nature you find in them! A gentleman for twenty years sat burning a candle in his hand, in order to paint a lady carrying a candle in her hand.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Italian, Hands, Order

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• Paint what you see, not what you know.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Vision, Awe, Knows

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• Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what her painting isn't, until she finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is; you're off and running.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Thinking, White

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• When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.

  Erwin McManus

  Life, Dream, Future

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings”, p.113, Thomas Nelson

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• Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

  Lord Byron

  Giving, People, Romance

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Third”

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• Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

  Frank Bruno

  Sports, Athlete, Knives

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• Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

  Robert Henri

  Struggle, Fighting, Order

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Men, Years

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.165, Univ of California Press

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• Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Humility, Humble, Pride

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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.

  Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

  Color, Two, White

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• Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

  Joni Mitchell

  Block, Peers, Rotation

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