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• Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

  Paul Ryan

  Believe, Thinking, Government

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• The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

  Jose Saramago

  Believe, Writing, Artist

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

  Dimebag Darrell

  School, Kissing, Faces

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• I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

  Maurice Sendak

  Renaissance, Surface, Advise

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• The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

  Annie Dillard

  Self, Doe, World

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.83, Canongate Books

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• I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

  John Dyer

  Energy, Way, Brushes

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• I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, People, Design

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• Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.207, Wordsworth Editions

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• I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, People

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• I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

  David Hockney

  Cameras, Kind, Computer

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• Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

  Charles Schumer

  Jobs, Ideas, Accomplishment

  Chuck Schumer's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

  David Hockney

  Art, People, Chinese

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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• Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

  Jane Seymour

  Art, Character, Television

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• The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'

  William Shatner

  Hurt, Essence, Balls

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• I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

  Ed Sheeran

  Song, Artist, Musician

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

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• Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

  Grace Slick

  Singers, Used, Jerry

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• I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

  Edward Hopper

  Trust, Newton

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• It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Oil, Use

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959..

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• No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Host, Photograph, Bunch

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• As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they'd provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Hands, Creative

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• When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Art, Travel, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.

  Penn Jillette

  Religious, Real, Muslim Extremists

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

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• I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

  Grandma Moses

  Top Down, Sky, People

  Tampa Bay Magazine, p. 205, January/February 2008.

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• I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.

  Adam Savage

  Jobs, Long, Stories

  "Adam Savage makes an alien helmet replica". www.wired.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

  Edvard Munch

  People, Youth, Young

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