Paint Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.

  Leonor Fini

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• He (Thomas) is our best post-up player and now we will have to be more active in the paint. I think we can hold it down, but we will miss him though.

  Shawn Marion

  Player, Thinking, Missing

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• Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that.

  Ted Leo

  Band, Faces, Enough

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• I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible - determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders.

  Susan Vreeland

  Determination, Fate, Men

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• If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.

  Keali'i Reichel

  Hawaii, Language, Peas

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• It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

  David Hockney

  Tree, Remember, Sometimes

  "The Talented Mr Hockney". Interview with Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 15, 2001.

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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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• I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Teacher, Art, Mind

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• I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

  Ani DiFranco

  Wall, Bedroom, Over It

  Song: Both Hands, Album: Ani DiFranco

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• Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

  Dan Harris

  Obama Supporters, Black, President

  "ABC: Obama Critics 'Driven By Refusal to Accept Black President'; NBC Trumpets Carter's Racism Charges". www.newsbusters.org. September 15, 2009.

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• How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

  Olive Schreiner

  Writing, Looks, Paper

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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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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• More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pain, Writing, People

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• I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Pain, Two

  Fors Clavigera Letter 79, 18 June 1877. This comment was the basis for Whistler's 1878 libel suit against Ruskin.

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• In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Ability, Ifs

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• It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Years, Hours

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• I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Trying, Looks

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• Look from the blind man's eye.... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?

  Fawad Afzal Khan

  Motivational, Beautiful, Eye

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• My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

  Anthony Doerr

  Sister In Law, Skills, Long

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. Lying is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

  Richard Avedon

  Lying, Writing, Mean

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• Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, Rocks, Ideas

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

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• I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Summer, Morning, Flower

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

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• Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, Color, Effort

  Jennifer Saville, Georgia O'Keeffe, Honolulu Academy of Arts (1990). “Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i”

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• I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Stupid, Fool, Wanted

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.257, UPNE

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