Paint Quotes - Page 16

• I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Two, Enough Time, Week

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

  Ansel Elgort

  Basketball, Character, Thinking

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• You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor, they would say I'll paint your house.  I mean, that's the old days of what people would do to get health care with your doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I'm not backing down from that system.

  Sue Lowden

  Mean, Doctors, People

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.nbcnews.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.

  Lani Guinier

  Book, School, Loss

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• People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Art, Writing, People

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• I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.

  Leonor Fini

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• He (Thomas) is our best post-up player and now we will have to be more active in the paint. I think we can hold it down, but we will miss him though.

  Shawn Marion

  Player, Thinking, Missing

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• Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that.

  Ted Leo

  Band, Faces, Enough

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• I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible - determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders.

  Susan Vreeland

  Determination, Fate, Men

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• If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.

  Keali'i Reichel

  Hawaii, Language, Peas

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• It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

  David Hockney

  Tree, Remember, Sometimes

  "The Talented Mr Hockney". Interview with Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 15, 2001.

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• I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Teacher, Art, Mind

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• I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

  Ani DiFranco

  Wall, Bedroom, Over It

  Song: Both Hands, Album: Ani DiFranco

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• Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

  Dan Harris

  Obama Supporters, Black, President

  "ABC: Obama Critics 'Driven By Refusal to Accept Black President'; NBC Trumpets Carter's Racism Charges". www.newsbusters.org. September 15, 2009.

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• How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

  Olive Schreiner

  Writing, Looks, Paper

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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• More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pain, Writing, People

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• I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Pain, Two

  Fors Clavigera Letter 79, 18 June 1877. This comment was the basis for Whistler's 1878 libel suit against Ruskin.

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• In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Ability, Ifs

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• It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Years, Hours

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• I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Trying, Looks

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• Look from the blind man's eye.... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?

  Fawad Afzal Khan

  Motivational, Beautiful, Eye

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• My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

  Anthony Doerr

  Sister In Law, Skills, Long

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. Lying is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

  Richard Avedon

  Lying, Writing, Mean

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• Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, Rocks, Ideas

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

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• I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Summer, Morning, Flower

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

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