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• I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer.

  Andrew Ferguson

  Football, Beer, Games

  Andrew Ferguson (2012). “Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• There is never a question of what to paint but only how to paint.

  Robert Ryman

  Robert Ryman, Christel Sauer (1980). “Robert Ryman, 15. Juni-10. August 1980, InK. Halle Für Internationale Neue Kunst, Zürich”

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• I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.

  John Chamberlain

  Believe, Color, Car

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• I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.

  Childe Hassam

  Believe, Men, Everyday

  Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Childe Hassam, Jordan-Volpe Gallery (1994). “Childe Hassam: American impressionist”, Te Neues Pub Group

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• Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

  William Merritt Chase

  Trying, Distinguished, Grandiose

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• For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children

  Fred Thompson

  Children, House, May

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• Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

  Pierre de Ronsard

  Color, Earth, Bosoms

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• Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Ideas, Yellow, Orange

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• Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

  Robert Plant

  Looks, Matter, Materialism

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• Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his dark voice. Wonders and horrors both.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Dark, Voice, Tree

  R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.97, The Overlook Press

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• I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.

  Maxfield Parrish

  Girl, Art, Men

  Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers

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• My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.

  Joan Mitchell

  Mirrors, Feelings, Landscape

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• I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

  Franz Kline

  Feelings

  "Conversations with artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.

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• People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

  Franz Kline

  Thinking, White, People

  David Anfam, Franz Kline, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.) (1994). “Franz Kline: black & white, 1950-1961”, Menil Foundation

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• If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

  Franz Kline

  Doe, Emotion, Painting

  "Conversations With Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.

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• People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it's not: it's very fluid. It's like I'm doing a painting where the paint refuses to dry.

  Neville Brody

  Thinking, People, Dry

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• I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.

  David Bromstad

  Dark, Thinking, Color

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• For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Daughter, Brother, Stars

  "Fictional character: Jerry Mulligan". "An American in Paris", 1951.

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• When a seed sprouts, it's a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a strong or violent image, you may be expressing that part of yourself that's opening in order to let the new emerge.

  Michele Cassou

  Strong, Order, Two

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• I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

  Morris Graves

  Eye, Essence, World

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• To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Atmosphere, Figures, Humans

  "Futurism" edited by Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, (p. 172), 2008.

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• Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If you are in the midst of painting a forest full of tall tress and hanging vines, it is rather difficult to wake up the next day and suddenly turn that paining into the beach and ocean...We have to treat each day like a black canvas on which we can paint. Yesterday might have been paining flowers, but today you can paint cars or horses. A new day represents a chance for renewal.

  Ian K. Smith

  Beach, Horse, Ocean

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• I just can't seem to paint nice things.

  Ivan Albright

  Nice, Nice Things, Seems

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• When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.

  Samuel Palmer

  Wall, Moon, Years

  "The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher". Book by Alfred H. Palmer, London, 1892.

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• When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.

  Galarrwuy Yunupingu

  Country, Art, Fun

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