Paint Quotes - Page 24

• I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun.

  Bob Ross

  Fun, People, Worry

  "Disciples of The Bob Ross Technique Find Joy in Learning They Can Paint" by Judi Hunt, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p. C1, November 23, 1991.

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• Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

  Emily Carr

  Writing, Soul, Be Careful

  Emily Carr (2009). “Klee Wyck”, p.10, D & M Publishers

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• A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was one thing I was familiar with it was pleasing...There's no way to finish that sentence without embarrassing myself.

  Molly Harper

  Dresses, Way, Toes

  Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does not recede, a color band which does not obtrude, a white square or rectangle which does not move back or forth, to or fro, or up or down; there is also a painted white exterior frame band which is edged round the edge to the black. Every part is painted and contiguous to its neighbor; no part is above or below any other part. There is no hierarchy. There is no ambiguity. There is no illusion. There is no space or interval (time).

  Jo Baer

  Moving, Squares, Color

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• Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself.

  Anita Moorjani

  Giving, Use, Firsts

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• If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

  Edvard Munch

  Want, Mood, Staring

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• I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life.... They are the artists of being alive.

  Frederick Franck

  Artist, Guitar, Hands

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• I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

  Claude Monet

  Artist, Long, Painting

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• An artist paints his own reality.

  Ernie Barnes

  Artist, Reality

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• Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

  Josef Albers

  Art, Philosophy, People

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• If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, Canvas, Turbines

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• I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Night, Bags, Body

  "In Ga., Abramoff Scandal Threatens a Political Ascendancy" by Thomas B. Edsall, www.washingtonpost.com. January 16, 2006.

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• The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow to left-wing word police and militant propagandists who demand unfettered illegal immigration. Last week, in the wake of angry protests against the publication, vandals threw paint bombs and spray-painted graffiti on its offices.

  Michelle Malkin

  Fire, Wings, Office

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• Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of the Lord. When I paint, I try to represent the beauty of God's creation in my art. Many modern painters see the world as a jumble of random lines and shapes with no divine beauty or order, and their works reflect their viewpoint. Because I see God's peacefulness, serenity, and contentment, I work to capture those feelings on the canvas. My vision of God defines my vision of the world.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, Divine Beauty, Mountain Peaks

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• The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

  Sherrod Brown

  Army, Creating, People

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• Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Photography, I Can

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• I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Memories, Thinking

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• Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

  Robert Indiana

  Meaningful, People, Tree

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• Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Sides

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• Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wall, Atmosphere, Religion

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• Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural - as is listening to music or playing an instrument for some people. For this reason I searched for themes of my era and my generation. Photography offered this, so I chose it as a medium for painting.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Mean, People

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

  Evan Ross

  Art, Book, Clothing Line

  "Evan Ross ‘The Gardens of the Night’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. November 15, 2008.

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• If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough . Just do it. Be generous. Offer a gift to the world no one else can offer : yourself.

  Glennon Melton

  Healing, Writing, Worry

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• You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Dabs, Accomplish, Mona Lisa

  William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.41, Encounter Books

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• In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

  Chris Ofili

  Art, People, Routine

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