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• What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

  Laurie Lee

  Country, Flower, Teaching

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• A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

  Josef Albers

  Painter

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• I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

  Josef Albers

  Way, Spread

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• If England was what England seems,
  An not the England of our dreams,
  But only putty, brass, an' paint,
  'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dream, England, Brass

  "The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling".

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• People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

  Lee Krasner

  War, Mean, Army

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• I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

  Edi Rama

  Artist, Color, Giving

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• I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.

  Tamara de Lempicka

  Rooms, Firsts, Painting

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• When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

  Luc Tuymans

  Art, Answers, Curator

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• I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Believe, White, Optimism

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• What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others. Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes. Work at you books, and before long you will hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Lying, Book, Writing

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.819, eBookIt.com

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  As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

  Diego Rivera

  Artist, Faithful, Vision

  Diego Rivera (1960). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Together, Buttons, Junk

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• It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

  Julian Eltinge

  Depends

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

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• But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Italian, Oil

  Wyndham Lewis, Scott W. Klein (2010). “Tarr”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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• When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

  Reed Hundt

  Artist, Giving, Canvas

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• When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Light, Hair

  FaceBook post by David Eagleman from May 31, 2016

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• Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

  Romare Bearden

  Discovery, Finding Yourself, Horizon

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• It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

  Kelly Osbourne

  White, Skins, Faces

  "Kelly Osbourne: How she grew from an ugly duckling into a sexy swan - pics" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2010.

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• The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at will. He doesn't paint but is painted through.

  Thomas J. Katz

  Creativity, Artist, Keys

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• With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

  Shirley Conran

  Self Esteem, Color, People

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• Place a name upon the night
  One to set your heart alight
  And to make the darkness bright
  Paint the sky with stars.

  Enya

  Song, Stars, Heart

  Song: Paint the Sky With Stars

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• Starry Starry night
  Paint your palette blue and gray
  Look out on a summer's day
  With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
  Shadows on the hills
  Sketch the trees and the daffodils
  Catch the breeze and the winter chills
  In colors on the snowy linen land.

  Don McLean

  Summer, Song, Eye

  Song: Vincent

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• Oh Jesse, paint you pictures, 'bout how it's gonna be.
  By now I should know better, your dreams are never free.
  But tell me all about, our little trailer by the sea.
  Oh Jesse, you can always sell any dream to me.

  Joshua Kadison

  Dream, Song, Sea

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• If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Cutting, Tennis, Lines

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• Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow. It could be with art, a sculpture, music or even in science. The difference, however, between scientific creativity and any other kind of creativity, is that no matter how long you wait, no one else will ever compose "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" except for Beethoven. No matter what you do, no one else will paint Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Only Van Gogh could do that because it came from his creativity.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Art, Creativity, Night

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

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