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• Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Humility, Humble, Pride

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• There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

  Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

  Color, Two, White

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• Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Appreciation, Father, Men

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• If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Country, Pain, Patriotic

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• The most amazing feeling I feel
  Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real
  Maybe I paint the sky blue
  My greatest creation was you.

  Jay-Z

  Fathers Day, Dad, Real

  "Beyonce And Jay-Z Working On New Albums", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

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• After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot.

  Tom Platz

  Workout, Emotional, Artist

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• Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

  Jim Rome

  Soccer, Car, Acting

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• Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

  Alexander Pope

  Garden, Genius, Plant

  Alexander Pope, “Epistles To Several Persons: Epistle Iv, To Richard Boyle,”

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• I can't even find the perfect brush so I can paint what's going through my mind. Racing 'gainst myself but I'm a couple steps behind.

  Drake

  Couple, Humble, Perfect

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• Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

  Drake

  Humble, Men, Flow

  Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.

  Drake

  Hater, Humble, Vivid

  Song: Successful, 2009

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• Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

  Alexander Pope

  Saint, Folly, Grows

  Alexander Pope (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Edited by Robert Carruthers. Illustrated by Portraits and Original Designs. In 4 Volumes”, p.22

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• Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

  Lord Byron

  Giving, People, Romance

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Third”

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• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Guy, Chairs

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• I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Records, Painting, Comment

  "The Speaker's Book of Quotations". Book by Henry O. Dormann, p. 26, 2009.

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• The mind paints before the brush.

  James Ellis

  Mind, Painting, Brushes

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• Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Two, Musical

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• One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

  Henri Michaux

  Men, Two, Color

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• The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Perception, Painting, Should

  Charles Sala, Caspar David Friedrich (1994). “Caspar David Friedrich and Romantic Painting”, Vilo International

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• Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

  Robert Henri

  Giving, Spirit, Materials

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Form, Intangible

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.15, Hudson Hills

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• I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

  Martin Kippenberger

  Art, Ideas, People

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• So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Looks

  Quoted in Goodrich and Bry GeorgiaO'Keeffe (1970).

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• Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Color, Drawing

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