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• I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Believe, White, Optimism

  Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

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• Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

  Philip Guston

  Memories, Artist, Magic

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.278, Univ of California Press

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• If you want to hide it, paint it red.

  Bradley Henderson

  Magic, Want, Red

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• Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

  Joey Comeau

  Art, Glasses, Sound

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• Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?

  Sam Ewing

  Wall, Color, Things Change

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• The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, Lying, Imagination

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• I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being

  Franz Marc

  Art, Animal, Way

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• I paint what I think, not what I see.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Thinking

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• The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Essence, Two, Soul

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• As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Art, Children, School

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• One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.

  Grantland Rice

  Swings, Wind, Might

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• If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.

  Isaac Slade

  Jesus, Might, Enough

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• All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

  Edith Schaeffer

  Art, Book, Writing

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity.

  Stacey Levine

  Ironic, Creepy, Hilarity

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• Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

  Julius Lester

  Art, Sound, Radio

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• I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Fear, Writing, Quiet Moments

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.26, Penguin

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• Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

  Igor Babailov

  Exercise, Museums, Copying

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• The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.

  Igor Babailov

  Brushes, Fluent

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• I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

  Robert Toth

  Math, Like Me, Specialty

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• In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to any woman to be told she writes, paints, sings, talks, or even thinks, like a man?

  Elizabeth Wordsworth

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.

  Isaac Hanson

  Writing, People, Feelings

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• I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

  Jerry Harrison

  Technology, Thinking, Sound

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• The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?

  Donald Antrim

  Simple, Color, Knowing

  Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan

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• And that is true in 85 percent of kids; it's kids who live in old, dilapidated, mostly urban housing. But that still leaves 15 percent of the cases that occur in middle- or upper-class families, usually associated with home renovations. People are sanding paint, removing banisters, cleaning up windowsills, and they don't realize that they're spewing lead dust around in the house. And then the kids get it.

  Deirdre Imus

  Home, Kids, Dust

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• As long as a believer is worrying about whether or not they are truly saved, they will never grow up in spiritual maturity. It basically guarantees that a Christian will remain stuck in spiritual infancy. And worse, it paints a picture of God that is not only untrue but also unbiblical. It cheapens the gift of salvation – the gift of grace – and make God look like a finicky human.

  Will Davis

  Christian, Spiritual, Growing Up

  Will Davis (2011). “10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them”, p.150, Revell

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