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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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• Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Photography, I Can

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• My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.

  Charles Mingus

  Teacher, School, Son

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Memories, Thinking

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• Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

  Robert Indiana

  Meaningful, People, Tree

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• Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Sides

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• Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wall, Atmosphere, Religion

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• Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural - as is listening to music or playing an instrument for some people. For this reason I searched for themes of my era and my generation. Photography offered this, so I chose it as a medium for painting.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Mean, People

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

  Evan Ross

  Art, Book, Clothing Line

  "Evan Ross ‘The Gardens of the Night’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. November 15, 2008.

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• If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough . Just do it. Be generous. Offer a gift to the world no one else can offer : yourself.

  Glennon Melton

  Healing, Writing, Worry

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• You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Dabs, Accomplish, Mona Lisa

  William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.41, Encounter Books

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• In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

  Chris Ofili

  Art, People, Routine

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• An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Way, Painting

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• There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can't. So we write them down. Or we paint them. Or we sing about them. It's our only option. To remember. To attempt to discover the truth. Sometimes we do it to stay alive. These things, they live inside of us. They are the secrets we stash in our pockets and the weapons we carry like guns across our backs. And in the end we have to decide for ourselves when these things are worth fighting for, and when it's time to throw in the towel.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Life, Writing, Fighting

  "How to kill a rock star". Book by Tiffanie DeBartolo, 2005.

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• The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command.

  Mark Rothko

  Glasses, Views, Looks

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• Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.

  Igor Babailov

  Drawing

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• The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

  Keith Haring

  Reason, No Reason

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.126, Penguin

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• At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon's top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun.

  Barry Goldwater

  Beautiful, Photography, Wall

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• I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

  Alexander Calder

  Color, Want, Red

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• When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

  Henri Matisse

  Mean, Blue, Color

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• I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

  Amanda Harlech

  Art, Purple, Orange

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• A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Way, Said

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• You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.

  Zig Ziglar

  Thinking, People, Use

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• It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Venice, Splits, Littles

  Giorgio Vasari (1963). “The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects”, London : Dent ; New York : Dutton

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• By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Oil, Definitions

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