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• Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

  Gurney Williams

  Children, Teaching, Creativity

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• If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

  Joel Garreau

  Caves, World, Dry

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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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• Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Reality, Want

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• Mindless violence, well let me try to paint it.
  Here's the 5 steps in hopes to explain it:
  
  1, It's me and my Nation against the World
  2, Then me and my Clan against the Nation
  3, Then me and my Fam against the Clan
  4, Then me and my Brother, we no hesitation
  Go against the Fam until they cave in
  5, Now who's left in this deadly equation?
  
  That's right, it's me against my Brother
  Then we point a Kalashnikov
  And kill one another.

  K'naan

  Brother, Rap, Hip Hop

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• See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

  Keith Haring

  Reality, Transcending

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• The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

  Tony Snow

  Peace, Two, Oil

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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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• Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.

  Bill Harry

  Flying, Aviation, Rudders

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• Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Love, Failure, Order

  Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.223, Ravenio Books

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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 don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Thinking, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

  Pablo Picasso

  Ideas, Giving, Guernica

  "The Sociology of Architecture: Constructing Identities" by Paul Jones, (p. 47), 2011.

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• What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ?
  George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Ambition, Buttons

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• I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

  Lucian Freud

  People, Portraits, Doe

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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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• As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Doe, Flesh

  Lucian Freud, Richard Calvocoressi, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (1997). “Lucian Freud: early works : Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art”

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• It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of paint to represent a haystack at sunset, to combine ingredients to make a flavorful dish.  No one is born with that skill.  It is developed through exercise, through repitition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding.  And it takes time. . . . If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Sunset, Exercise

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Sex, School, Responsibility

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• When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience One does not choose the content, one submits to it.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Artist, Expression, Doubt

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• I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

  Edward Hopper

  Light, House, Want

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• I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.

  Gustave Courbet

  Angel, Show Me, Shows

  Quoted by Vincent van Gogh in a letter to brother Theo on July 1885. "The letters of Vincent van Gogh". Book edited by Ronal de Leeuw, p. 302, 1996.

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• When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

  Jackson Pollock

  Flow, Painting, Notion

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