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• An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Way, Painting

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• There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can't. So we write them down. Or we paint them. Or we sing about them. It's our only option. To remember. To attempt to discover the truth. Sometimes we do it to stay alive. These things, they live inside of us. They are the secrets we stash in our pockets and the weapons we carry like guns across our backs. And in the end we have to decide for ourselves when these things are worth fighting for, and when it's time to throw in the towel.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Life, Writing, Fighting

  "How to kill a rock star". Book by Tiffanie DeBartolo, 2005.

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• Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.

  Igor Babailov

  Drawing

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• The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

  Keith Haring

  Reason, No Reason

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.126, Penguin

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• At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon's top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun.

  Barry Goldwater

  Beautiful, Photography, Wall

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• I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

  Alexander Calder

  Color, Want, Red

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• When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

  Henri Matisse

  Mean, Blue, Color

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• I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

  Amanda Harlech

  Art, Purple, Orange

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• A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Way, Said

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• You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.

  Zig Ziglar

  Thinking, People, Use

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• By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Oil, Definitions

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• Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Light, Ice

  'King John' (1591-8) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Jealousy, War, Naked

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2004). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: And, The Amateur Emigrant”, Penguin Classics

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• Your style is the way you talk in paint.

  Robert Henri

  Style, Way

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

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• My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Jobs, Knows

  ""A Poet's Journal: Days of 1945-1951"". Book by George Seferis, p. 105, 1999.

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• I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Giving, Wish

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.

  Pablo Picasso

  Islamic, Age, Mastery

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• Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Night, Entrepreneur

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.20, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Past, Feels

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• I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

  Mac Miller

  Song: Desperado, Album: Macadelic, 2012

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• I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant.

  Fred Williams

  Art, Term, Irrelevant

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• Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.

  Thomas Brooks

  Color, Sin, Satan

  "Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks".

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• What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Ideas, Trying

  Hélène Parmelin, Pablo Picasso (1965). “Picasso; the artist and his model: and other recent works”

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• Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

  John Ruskin

  Dust, Cities, Giving

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.

  David Allen

  Creativity, Two, Creative

  David Allen (2011). “Ready For Anything: 52 productivity principles for work and life”, p.53, Hachette UK

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