Paint Quotes - Page 29

• Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous incremental studies that together paint an increasingly coherent picture of how nature works.

  Michael E. Mann

  Impact, Understanding, Together

  Michael E. Mann (2013). “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines”, p.38, Columbia University Press

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• I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.

  Amrita Sher-Gil

  Europe, India, Matisse

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• If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!

  L. S. Lowry

  Sunday, People, Week

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• Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the the effect of my work.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fall, Feet, Space

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.

  Allison Mackie

  Dark, Unique, Mind

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• I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.

  William Morris Hunt

  Simple, Thinking, Despair

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• It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

  Tony Curtis

  Stars, Knitting, Track

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• Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

  Tony Curtis

  Song, Opera, Singers

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• You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun.

  Julia de Burgos

  Hair, Wind, Curls

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• If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

  Albert Brooks

  Writing, Brain, Mosaics

  "Auteur Albert Brooks Feels the 'Drive'". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. September 14, 2011.

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• I paint abstract expressions.

  Billy Zane

  Expression, Abstract

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.

  John Singer Sargent

  Hate, Believe, Men

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• Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

  Ronnie Wood

  Faces, Arguing, Wells

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• We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

  Michael Shermer

  Data, Portraits, Fields

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.232, Henry Holt and Company

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• I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

  Sara Blakely

  Blue, Style, Nails

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• There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Beautiful, Struggle, Perfect

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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• A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

  Zachery Ty Bryan

  Children, Opportunity, People

  "Where Are They Now? 'Home Improvement' star Zachery Ty Bryan turned his back on spotlight" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. June 21, 2012.

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• I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

  Arthur Boyd

  Thinking, Piano, Would Be

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• Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

  Russell Banks

  Writing, Draws, Stills

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• I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

  Abbie Cornish

  Oil, Media, Stuff

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• Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Self, Position Of Power, Adults

  "Embracing the Culture of a Younger Generation" by Raymond J. Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2012.

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• You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more.

  Anne Archer

  Writing, Practice, Musician

  "Anne Archer and Michelle Danner Come Together For A New Play". Interview with Jamie Painter Young, www.backstage.com. October 12, 2011.

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• The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical.

  Roman Coppola

  Silly, Book, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

  Peter Dinklage

  Fun, Successful, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

  Otto Dix

  Portraits, Portraiture, Should

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