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• Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

  Willem de Kooning

  Tree, Dollars, Millions

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• I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

  Banksy

  World, Over It, Ifs

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• There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

  Paul Samuelson

  Vegas, Gambling, People

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• Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

  Camille Pissarro

  First Impression, Firsts, Principles

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• If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
  For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

  "A Memorable Fancy". "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Book by William Blake, www.bartleby.com. 1793.

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• What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.

  Ian Hornak

  Organization, Space, Work Out

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• A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Writing, People, Stories

  "EXCLUSIVE: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele Talk Key & Peele Series Premiere". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

  Bill Viola

  Thinking, Artist, Oil

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• Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.

  Janet Fitch

  Fall, Artist, Light

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• I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Painter, I Can

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• An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Ideas, Canvas

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• The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cutting, Men, Voice

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• Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

  T. S. Eliot

  Rocks, Sea, Boldness

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable. He's not a gimpy gorilla like me.

  Joseph Bruce

  Dope, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Keep evolving. Keep reading plays, doing plays, but also be sure to expand your horizons as much as possible. You only have yourself to bring to your work. You are your palette, so give yourself as many colors as possible to paint with.

  Gideon Glick

  Reading, Play, Color

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Character, Frustration, Color

  Source: collider.com

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• And every dew-drop paints a bow.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dew, Bows

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.135, Broadview Press

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• He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

  Horace

  Dolphins, Woods, Painting

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 576-77, Ars Poetica, XXX, 1922.

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• If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

  James Whistler

  Photography, Kings, Flower

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

  James Whistler

  Glasses, Should, Surface

  Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler (2001). “Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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• It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

  James Whistler

  Artist, Men, One Day

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!

  James Whistler

  Artist, Students, Shock

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• Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Doe, Likes

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• Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

  Winston Churchill

  Hands, Boredom, Ends

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

  Winston Churchill

  Fun, Lovely, Looks

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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