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• To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

  Thomas Willis

  Soul, Brain, Tasks

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• I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

  Paolo Veronese

  Art, Consideration, Natural

  Paolo Veronese's testimony before the inquisition in Venice, as translated by Charles Yriarte, members.efn.org. July 18, 1573.

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• Why is the world round?
  Why do the suckas bite?
  Why do the freaks come out at night?
  Why they paint Jesus white?
  I sit and wonder why we breakin hip-hop laws,
  Doing videos in houses that we know ain't yours.

  Lee Majors

  Jesus, Rap, Night

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• We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Able, Rebound

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• That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Team, Play

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• I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

  Hans Hofmann

  Passion, Optimism, Able

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 119, 1962.

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• The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Nature, Philosophy, Hero

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• May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy that knowing your loved one brought... For time and space can never divide Or keep your loved one from your side. When memory paints in colors true, the happy hours that belonged to you.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Sympathy, Memories, Grief

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• Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

  Bernard Williams

  Optimistic, Optimism, Emptiness

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• [People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a superficial sense. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Lying, People, Criticism

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Riva Castleman, Wolfgang Wittrock, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1985). “Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: images of the 1890's”

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• Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Misery, Canvas

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• The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

  Edward Burne-Jones

  Angel, Wings, Soul

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• I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

  Lana Del Rey

  Beautiful, Memories, Writing

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• Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

  Thomas Couture

  Color, Knowing, Connections

  Thomas Couture (1879). “Conversations on Art Methods”

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• Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.

  Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

  Color, Use, Emotion

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• When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Men, Blue

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [902]

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• I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.

  George Frederic Watts

  Heart, Eye, Men

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• I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.

  Morris Graves

  Reality, Quality, Mysterious

  Harvard Review, Issues 20-21, p. 26, 2001.

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• I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

  Alexej von Jawlensky

  Soul, Saws, Painting

  Alexej von Jawlensky, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen (1994). “Alexej von Jawlensky: 25/9-27/11/1994, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam”, Univ of Washington Pr

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• Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

  Toni Onley

  Drawing, Brushes, Draws

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• You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.

  Andre Lhote

  Color, Drawing, Way

  André Lhote (1950). “Treatise on Landscape Painting”

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• When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Canvas, Form, Process

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• Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Girl, Flower

  "Forward to an Exhibit: II". Poem by E. E. Cummings, 1945.

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• I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

  Lucian Freud

  People, Spite, Happens

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• It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

  Lucian Freud

  Morning, Giving Up, Ambitious

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