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• Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

  Romare Bearden

  Discovery, Finding Yourself, Horizon

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• It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

  Kelly Osbourne

  White, Skins, Faces

  "Kelly Osbourne: How she grew from an ugly duckling into a sexy swan - pics" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2010.

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• The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at will. He doesn't paint but is painted through.

  Thomas J. Katz

  Creativity, Artist, Keys

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• With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

  Shirley Conran

  Self Esteem, Color, People

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• Place a name upon the night
  One to set your heart alight
  And to make the darkness bright
  Paint the sky with stars.

  Enya

  Song, Stars, Heart

  Song: Paint the Sky With Stars

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• Starry Starry night
  Paint your palette blue and gray
  Look out on a summer's day
  With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
  Shadows on the hills
  Sketch the trees and the daffodils
  Catch the breeze and the winter chills
  In colors on the snowy linen land.

  Don McLean

  Summer, Song, Eye

  Song: Vincent

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• Oh Jesse, paint you pictures, 'bout how it's gonna be.
  By now I should know better, your dreams are never free.
  But tell me all about, our little trailer by the sea.
  Oh Jesse, you can always sell any dream to me.

  Joshua Kadison

  Dream, Song, Sea

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• If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Cutting, Tennis, Lines

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• Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?

  Thomas Hood

  Eye, Drawing, Done

  Thomas Hood (1862). “the works of thomas hood”, p.361

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• Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow. It could be with art, a sculpture, music or even in science. The difference, however, between scientific creativity and any other kind of creativity, is that no matter how long you wait, no one else will ever compose "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" except for Beethoven. No matter what you do, no one else will paint Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Only Van Gogh could do that because it came from his creativity.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Art, Creativity, Night

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

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• I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

  Maurice Sendak

  Beautiful, Book, Water Lily

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.

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• I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Believe, White, Optimism

  Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

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• To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Reality, Attention

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper”, p.309

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• The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

  Pablo Picasso

  Goal, Useless, Method

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• If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

  Philip Guston

  Memories, Artist, Magic

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.278, Univ of California Press

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• If you want to hide it, paint it red.

  Bradley Henderson

  Magic, Want, Red

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• Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

  Joey Comeau

  Art, Glasses, Sound

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• Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?

  Sam Ewing

  Wall, Color, Things Change

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• The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, Lying, Imagination

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• I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being

  Franz Marc

  Art, Animal, Way

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• I paint what I think, not what I see.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Thinking

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• The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Essence, Two, Soul

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• As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Art, Children, School

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• One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.

  Grantland Rice

  Swings, Wind, Might

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