Paint Quotes - Page 40

• I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

  Burton Silverman

  Believe, Important, Way

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• I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right.

  Burton Silverman

  Passion, People, Events

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• I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.

  Janice Tanton

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

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• I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces.

  Frederick Varley

  Sunshine, Blue, Water

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• Don't paint the apple; paint the red.

  Arthur Lismer

  Apples, Red

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• Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything... the moonlight had colour, you could see to paint and be able to appreciate the colour of things.

  Arthur Lismer

  Moon, Light, Yellow

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• I think I'll paint roads
  on my front room walls
  to convince myself
  that I'm going places

  Lemn Sissay

  Wall, Thinking, Rooms

  Lemn Sissay (2016). “Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems”, p.102, Canongate Books

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• Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

  Georg Baselitz

  Past, Facts, Gender

  "My Paintings are Battles". Interview with Susanne Beyer, Ulrike Knöfel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

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• Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.

  Anthony Caro

  Nice, Moving, Cutting

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• It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Mean, Views, Desire

  "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 232), 1963.

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• An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.

  Morris Graves

  Men, Artist, Design

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• I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Book, Imagination, Listening

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• My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

  Romare Bearden

  People, Purpose, Knows

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• When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

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• Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

  Antony Sher

  Struggle, Book, Writing

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• The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.

  Criss Jami

  Shining, Arrogance, Target

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Portraits, Faces

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• If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Art, Red, Faces

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• Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.

  James Howell

  Home, House, Should

  "Parly of Beasts". Book by James Howell, p. 58, 1660.

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• The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.

  Andrew Forge

  Cutting, Skins, Half

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• The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Fleeting, Gains, Yards

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• I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Portraits, Portraiture, Care

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• As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair them, never a place in which to paint them.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Stores, Garage, Concerned

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• When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it. Then I get to the studio and, once the image starts to emerge and come together, pleasure kicks in. And then you can see things that no other person can see.

  Luc Tuymans

  Real, Agony, Anxiety

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• To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

  J. E. H. MacDonald

  Realizing, Copies, Sensations

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