Paint Quotes - Page 40

• When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Attitude, Promise, Mind

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• Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.

  Robert Breault

  Appreciation, Children, Flower

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• How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!

  Thomas Hood

  Summer, Autumn, Sky

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.164

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• Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

  Winston Churchill

  Fun, Trying, Done

  Dame Mary Soames, Sir Winston Churchill (1990). “Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter : a Memoir by His Daughter”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• ... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

  Winston Churchill

  Fighting, Battle, Trying

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

  Winston Churchill

  Eye, Effort, Joy

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• Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Light, Color

  Andreas Feininger (1973). “Photographic seeing”, Prentice Hall

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• I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint, the chips and cracks. How many hands had gripped them? I wondered. What lives were attached to those hands, what dreams were shattered, what sorrows were they trying to squeeze out of their souls?

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Dream, Hands, Soul

  Jimmy Santiago Baca (2007). “A Place to Stand”, p.102, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.

  Allan Nevins

  Art, Past, Ideas

  Allan Nevins (1975). “Allan Nevins on history”

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• History paints the human heart.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Heart, History, Humans

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• And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.

  Herman Melville

  Suicide, Bird, Might

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.96, Cosimo, Inc.

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• How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.

  Gerhard Richter

  Flower, Feelings, Gingerbread

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• A brush of kindness can paint a smile on a face.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Inspirational, Kindness, Faces

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• Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.

  Austin O'Malley

  House, Literature, Coats

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• As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Art, Skills, Technique

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• During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.

  Alexa Hampton

  Wall, Father, Night

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• As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

  Denzel Washington

  Color, Directors, Actors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To make films is as boring as watching paint dry. You usually have to do tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

  Jenny Agutter

  Waiting, Energy, Here And There

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

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• Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, Directors, Tools

  Source: collider.com

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• Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

  Jane Austen

  Imagination, Inspire, Lovely

  Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• I'd tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.

  Bat for Lashes

  Naked, Body

  "Echo Chamber: Bat for Lashes" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 6, 2009.

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• You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

  Sol LeWitt

  Worry, Anxiety, Secret

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• I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Order, Abandoned

  "‘No, I don’t paint anymore’ – Bookmunch Classic Interview: Jonathan Lethem". Interview with Peter Wild, bookmunch.wordpress.com. October 31, 2013.

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• If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

  Norah Jones

  Way, Reverie, Ifs

  Song: Painter Song, Album: Come Away With Me

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• You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eye, Men, Hands

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