Paint Quotes - Page 31

• There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.

  Vance Havner

  Son, Bigger And Better, Laziness

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• If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

  Diana Loomans

  Running, Stars, Children

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• When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

  Julie Mehretu

  Mom, Morning, Children

  "Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Writing, Brain, Different

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• I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Writing, Found, Messy

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• When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.

  Markus Zusak

  Growing Up, Father, Bored

  FaceBook post by Markus Zusak from Jan 27, 2012

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• Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!

  Nigel Hamilton

  Sports, Strong, Hero

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• Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Art, Writing, Should Have

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• Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.

  Allan Kaprow

  Dog, Art, Light

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• If England was what England seems,
  An not the England of our dreams,
  But only putty, brass, an' paint,
  'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dream, England, Brass

  "The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling".

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• People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

  Lee Krasner

  War, Mean, Army

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• Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

  Vikram Seth

  Jobs, Giving Up, Writing

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• I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

  Banksy

  World, Over It, Ifs

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• I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

  Edi Rama

  Artist, Color, Giving

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• I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.

  Tamara de Lempicka

  Rooms, Firsts, Painting

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• When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

  Luc Tuymans

  Art, Answers, Curator

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• I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Believe, White, Optimism

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• What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others. Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes. Work at you books, and before long you will hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Lying, Book, Writing

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.819, eBookIt.com

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  As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

  Diego Rivera

  Artist, Faithful, Vision

  Diego Rivera (1960). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Together, Buttons, Junk

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• It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

  Julian Eltinge

  Depends

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

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• But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Italian, Oil

  Wyndham Lewis, Scott W. Klein (2010). “Tarr”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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• When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

  Reed Hundt

  Artist, Giving, Canvas

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• When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Light, Hair

  FaceBook post by David Eagleman from May 31, 2016

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