Paint Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• Ah! What avails the classic bent
  And what the cultured word,
  Against the undoctored incident
  That actually occurred?
  And what is Art whereto we press
  Through paint and prose and rhyme-
  When Nature in her nakedness
  Defeats us every time?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Art, Real, Classic

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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• If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Light, Consistency, Easy

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• When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

  Robert Genn

  Attitude, Praise, Posture

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• I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

  Joni Mitchell

  Music, Joy, Sorrow

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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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• Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

  Oliver Cromwell

  War, Skills, Desire

  Quoted in HoraceWalpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1763). Usually misquoted as "warts and all."

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• Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.

  Brian Froud

  Soul, Spirit And Soul, Spirit

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• The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who get to the flesh. Visceral artists - Bacon, Freud. And de Kooning, of course. He's really my man. He doesn't depict anything, yet it's more than representation, it's about the meaning of existence and pushing the medium of paint.

  Jenny Saville

  Art, Men, Body

  "Under the skin" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.

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• I didn't paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy's living room.

  Ralph Fasanella

  Guy, Rooms, Painting

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• Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.

  Lois Mailou Jones

  Art, Struggle, Color

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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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• Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

  Minnie Driver

  Writing, Play, Creative

  "I've taken a pounding" by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2004.

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• I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

  Christina Milian

  Art, Fun, Ceramics

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• But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

  Alan Bean

  Moon, Knows

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• As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.

  Alan Bean

  Artist, Moon, Mars

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• The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.

  Naomi Watts

  Song, Moving, Thinking

  Dark Horizons Interview, December 7, 2005.

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• Having children takes the focus off yourself, which I'm really grateful for. I'm so tired of thinking about myself. I'm sick of myself. You feel you want to be there and not miss out on anything. It's a true joy and a very profound love. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is the most extraordinary thing I've ever taken on.

  Brad Pitt

  Children, Book, Love You

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.

  Julia Roberts

  Ideas, Mind, Trying

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• I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

  David Cross

  Funny, Hate, Humor

  "Let America Laugh". Interview with Dan Hoyle, www.alternet.org. January 1, 2004.

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• I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?

  Andrew Stanton

  Independent, Want, Able

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• I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

  Rachel Bilson

  Thinking, Ridiculous, Beauty Comes From Within

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• If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot.

  Rainn Wilson

  Expression, Shining, Creative

  "Big Think Interview With Rainn Wilson". Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

  Christopher Plummer

  Becoming One, Cities, Survivor

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