Paint Quotes - Page 35

• I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.

  Meher Baba

  Artist, Soul, World

  Meher Baba (1972). “The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba”

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• If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Records, Opponents

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• I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

  Meher Baba

  Heart, Color, People

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• Everyday's a good day when you paint

  Bob Ross

  Good Day, Everyday

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• It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

  Willem de Kooning

  Thinking, Portraiture, Today

  Barbara Hess, Willem De Kooning (2004). “Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse”, p.33, Taschen

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• One can take a neon tube and simply paint it black on the front. So it would read as a black letter or a line, but it would also read as neon because there would be light coming from behind that black letter.

  Glenn Ligon

  Light, Black, Would Be

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• The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

  LeRoy Neiman

  Guy, Students, Abstract

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• I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun.

  Bob Ross

  Fun, People, Worry

  "Disciples of The Bob Ross Technique Find Joy in Learning They Can Paint" by Judi Hunt, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p. C1, November 23, 1991.

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• Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

  Emily Carr

  Writing, Soul, Be Careful

  Emily Carr (2009). “Klee Wyck”, p.10, D & M Publishers

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• A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was one thing I was familiar with it was pleasing...There's no way to finish that sentence without embarrassing myself.

  Molly Harper

  Dresses, Way, Toes

  Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does not recede, a color band which does not obtrude, a white square or rectangle which does not move back or forth, to or fro, or up or down; there is also a painted white exterior frame band which is edged round the edge to the black. Every part is painted and contiguous to its neighbor; no part is above or below any other part. There is no hierarchy. There is no ambiguity. There is no illusion. There is no space or interval (time).

  Jo Baer

  Moving, Squares, Color

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• Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself.

  Anita Moorjani

  Giving, Use, Firsts

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• If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

  Robert Motherwell

  Would Be, Painting, Painter

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• If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

  Edvard Munch

  Want, Mood, Staring

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• I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life.... They are the artists of being alive.

  Frederick Franck

  Artist, Guitar, Hands

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• With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

  Joni Mitchell

  Painting

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• I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

  Claude Monet

  Artist, Long, Painting

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• An artist paints his own reality.

  Ernie Barnes

  Artist, Reality

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• Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

  Josef Albers

  Art, Philosophy, People

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• If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, Canvas, Turbines

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• I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

  Robert Henri

  Purpose, Alive, Privilege

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• I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Night, Bags, Body

  "In Ga., Abramoff Scandal Threatens a Political Ascendancy" by Thomas B. Edsall, www.washingtonpost.com. January 16, 2006.

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• The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow to left-wing word police and militant propagandists who demand unfettered illegal immigration. Last week, in the wake of angry protests against the publication, vandals threw paint bombs and spray-painted graffiti on its offices.

  Michelle Malkin

  Fire, Wings, Office

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• Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of the Lord. When I paint, I try to represent the beauty of God's creation in my art. Many modern painters see the world as a jumble of random lines and shapes with no divine beauty or order, and their works reflect their viewpoint. Because I see God's peacefulness, serenity, and contentment, I work to capture those feelings on the canvas. My vision of God defines my vision of the world.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, Divine Beauty, Mountain Peaks

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• The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

  Sherrod Brown

  Army, Creating, People

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