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• Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

  William S. Burroughs

  Art, Writing, Hands

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

  Sophia Bush

  Fun, Character, Everyday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Way, Matisse

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• But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Truth, Pain

  Letter to Thomas Moore, 28 October 1815, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 4 (1975)

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• I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

  Jimmy Carter

  Morning, Book, Tired

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• The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.

  Nick Cave

  Art, School, Night

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• I paint as if I were Rothschild.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Rothschild, Ifs

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• White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Color White, Shining

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• I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Hair, White, Political

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• Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

  Chuck Close

  Portraits, Firsts, Recognition

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• I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

  Dimebag Darrell

  School, Kissing, Faces

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• The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

  Annie Dillard

  Self, Doe, World

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.83, Canongate Books

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• I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

  John Dyer

  Energy, Way, Brushes

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• I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, People, Design

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• I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Writing, People, Trying

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• I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.

  Nathan Fillion

  Nice, Kids, Hiking

  "Geekmom swoon of the week: Nathan Fillion in parade magazine". Interview with Alison Clark, www.wired.com. March 19, 2011.

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• Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.

  Bobby Flay

  Oil, Pay, Sauce

  Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter

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• What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Creativity, Skills

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• I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

  Alberto Giacometti

  Color, Intention, Gray

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• Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Color, Romance, Taste

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• My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

  David Hasselhoff

  Site, Stills, Personal Things

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• In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

  Ethan Hawke

  Twenties, Stills, Wet

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• I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

  David Hockney

  Cameras, Kind, Computer

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• Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

  David Hockney

  Art, People, Chinese

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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• I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

  Edward Hopper

  Trust, Newton

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