Paint Quotes - Page 6

• If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Lonely, Unhappy, Scene

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Writing, Garden, Facts

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• Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.

  David Ebershoff

  Grandma, Years, Grandpa

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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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• Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed.

  Annie Dillard

  Couple, Scare, Ponds

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.119, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

  Caitlin Moran

  Encouragement, Makeup, Thinking

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2013.

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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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• I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

  Ajay Naidu

  Theatre, Definitions, Broads

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• I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Hate, Flower

  Quoted in N.Y. Herald Tribune, 18 Apr. 1954

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• I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Scales

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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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• One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, New York, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.77, Infobase Publishing

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• Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Mean, Thinking

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.35, Infobase Publishing

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• I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

  Rick Perry

  School, Awards, Texas

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Hundred, Theme

  Pablo Picasso, Daniel Robbins (1979). “Picasso's Vollard Suite”

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• My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

  Maira Kalman

  Notebook, Dream, Travel

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• OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Love You, Writing

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.913, Delphi Classics

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• Paint what you like and die happy

  Henry Miller

  Dies

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• I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.

  Irving Stone

  Heart, Artist, Thinking

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• And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Air, Would Be, Way

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• I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

  Man Ray

  Dream, Art, Collective Unconscious

  "Man Ray: Photographer". Interview with Philippe Sers in Camera, 1981.

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• In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

  Tom Robbins

  Wall, Writing, Clouds

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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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• But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Live Life, Creativity

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