Paint Quotes - Page 3

• You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

  Dave Ramsey

  Canvas, Week, Clean

  Twitter post from Jul 27, 2015

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• I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.

  Frida Kahlo

  Long, Broken, Sick

  John Morrison, Frida Kahlo (2003). “Frida Kahlo”, p.87, Infobase Publishing

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• Since I cannot sing, I paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Artist

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.35, Infobase Publishing

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• I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

  Burt Young

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Impressionists have to paint with a very broad stroke because you've got to see it within a couple of seconds. You go, "That's a really funny Robert De Niro." As an actor, though, you look at different aspects of a character. I try to completely surround myself with the assignment. It's like being in a big cloud and then some of it rains through.

  Gary Oldman

  Couple, Rain, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't paint over my paintings with black paint. I paint black paintings. It isn't because I'm sad, just as I didn't paint red paintings yesterday because I was happy. Nor will I paint yellow paintings tomorrow because I'm jealous.

  Georg Baselitz

  Jealous, Black, Tomorrow

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Just give us 50 years where we're the only ones who are allowed to profit from art, and then you can do whoever you want. In fact, I'll buy you the paint. Whatever you want. Just give us 50 years. 50 years. That's it.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Art, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once you have MIDI information - I mean, it's a bit technical - that's your paint. You can slow down, pitch up, change notes within a different key. That's the foundation in which you can write things.

  Tim Hecker

  Writing, Mean, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors. And yet there's this political conversation - this reform conversation - that paints a very negative picture of the effectiveness of the teaching population. So there's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Having access to mobile phones and being able to document your own life brings people together. Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet. It's like our new feathers, our new face paint. We're still trying to find love and friendship and cool music, but now it's over the Internet.

  Robyn

  Technology, People, Finding Love

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not going to be like, "I gotta get this idea out of my head." It's like, "OK, here's a clean slate, and I've got all these paints, and all these brushes, and this is what I'm going to do with it." It reveals itself, and you take a step back and say, "What's happening here? Where are we going? What does this mean? Do I need to break it open? Does it need to just be what it is? Should it end now?"

  Flying Lotus

  Mean, Break

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You cannot hear the waterfall if you stand next to it. I paint my jungles in the desert.

  Unknown

  Waterfalls, Jungle

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• I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical things in the paintings just sort of happen. They aren't things I thought of in advance. They are more things I am given. What paint does, in watercolor more than oil but it happens in oil too, are things one never expects if you work freely. I suppose I learned a lot coming to this after years of playing improvisational music. I have to trust my intuition and I work in the moment, when that moment seems to be happening. And to leave it alone when it is not.

  John Lurie

  Intuition, Painting, Moments

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was all done through equations and textbooks whereas artists go to art school and start making stuff; they fling paint at the walls, they dance and bash things together with giant bits of metal. Our society has come to think of science as being a very abstractified thing, and art as being a materialized thing.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Art, Wall, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Cultural identity is of course connected to this issue. When I was younger, it was inspiring to write about the people that raised me, especially their near-insane struggle to live between America and Middle East. But like many writers, I want to paint on as broad a canvas as possible.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Struggle, Writing, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I remember at the time of 9/11 that there were women who went out of their way to escort Muslim women to grocery stores because they wanted to be sure that they didn't experience any prejudice. And so I'm not one who believes that America is a country that's intolerant. It's the most tolerant country in the world, and I really think that it's unfortunate that a number of people are trying to paint America with this brush. I just don't see it.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I could feel like I was more of a master of language than I had been before. That was challenging and gratifying in so many ways. Then with these new poems, I've gone back to free verse, because it would be easy to paint myself into a corner with form. I saw myself becoming more opaque with the formal poems than I wanted to be. It took me a long time to work back into free verse again. That was a challenge in itself. You're always having to push yourself.

  Barbara Hamby

  Writing, Long, Challenges

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• It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not there to look glamorous. We're there to tune into the frequency of the Earth and the connective tissues of those things that we are responding to - language, colour, costume, literature, poetry, cuisine, perfume - these are the things that make up the desire to throw paint on a canvas, these are the things that create the excitement for building a new language!

  Lisa Gerrard

  Responsibility, Desire, Literature

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• I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

  Georg Baselitz

  House, Everyday, Canvas

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• To be honest, that whole exchange with Crunk Feminist actually made me write the song because I realize there's a lot of young women out there so hurt by the misogynistic images in hip-hop they paint it with such a broad brush stroke that they think anybody that defends hip-hop is defending misogyny.

  Talib Kweli

  Song, Hurt, Writing

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• Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.

  Amy Adams

  Makeup, Perfect, Interesting

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• Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

  Steve Albini

  Wall, Nice, Trying

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• All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

  David Bailey

  School, Exam, Draws

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• Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.

  Roseanne Barr

  Notebook, Girl, Wall

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.

  Dan Brown

  Art, Powerful, Believe

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