Paint Quotes - Page 26

• There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

  Peter Cushing

  Hate, Two, Theatre

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• If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'

  Kara Walker

  Wall, Artist, Black

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• Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

  Paul Cezanne

  Reality, Giving, Mind

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• The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Unhappy, Sunflower, Dawn

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• No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on

  J. Cole

  Needs, Crooked Smiles, Brushes

  Song: Crooked Smile, Album: Born Sinner, 2013

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• Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Clouds, Oil

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.2014, Library of Alexandria

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• Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second, the eyes. To paint a scene, if one thing be painted, it is easy enough; but to paint different things and yet to keep up the central interest is very difficult. Another difficult thing is stage - management, that is, combining different things in such a manner as to keep the central interest intact.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Drama, Eye

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Artist, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

  Anthony Quinn

  Sunday, Insomnia, One Day

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• Men with fine gifts think it worth while to live to paint a few great pictures which shall be looked at and admired for generations; or to write a few songs which shall sing themselves into the ears and hearts of men. But the woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

  J.R. Miller

  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

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• The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

  John Lasseter

  Growing Up, Curls, Details

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• My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Writing, Years, Everyday

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• If I'm feeling tired, I just say, 'I'm going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!'

  Emma Watson

  Tired, Purple, Feelings

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• Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.

  Diane Ackerman

  Ideas, Focus, Perception

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.127, Vintage

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• If you look at the offense like a fancy car, the offensive line is the engine. Even though we might have nice spinners and nice rims and tinted windows and some neat paint job, it doesn't mean crap without the engine. If the engine's not working, the car might look like a pretty nice car, but it's a piece of crap.

  Mike Tice

  Jobs, Nice, Mean

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• Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

  Donald Trump

  Writing, Business Deals, People

  Trump: The Art of the Deal ch. 1 (1987)

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• A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Depth, Vivid

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2781, Delphi Classics

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• If you don't own a train company then you go and paint on one instead... it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something... that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

  Banksy

  School, Cities, Names

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• I don't have any problem understanding why people flunk out of college or quit their jobs or cheat on each other or break the law or spray-paint walls. A little bit outside of things is where some people feel each other. We do it to replace the frame of family. We do it to erase and remake our origins in their own images. To say, I too was here.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Jobs, Wall, College

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• I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

  M. F. Husain

  Moving, Folks, Painter

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• If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

  N. C. Wyeth

  Men, Over You, Ache

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• A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what he is going to do. What he cares about is that he follows the music. You see, we are painters. We paint the music with our feet.

  Carlos Gavito

  Music, Dance, Thinking

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• I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Want, Feels

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• They try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life, and then I got this role and now I’m awesome. But the truth is that I’ve been awesome, and then I got this role.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Girl, School, Trying

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• I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

  Bam Margera

  Hot, Hot Chick, Chicks

  "Daredevil Turned Artist Shows Work In Exhibition 'Bam Margera & Friends'" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2012.

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