Paint Quotes - Page 5

• It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Oil, Use

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959..

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• No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Host, Photograph, Bunch

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• As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they'd provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Hands, Creative

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• When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Art, Travel, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.

  Penn Jillette

  Religious, Real, Muslim Extremists

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

  Jasper Johns

  Thinking, Ideas, World

  "Trend to the Anti-Art: Targets and Flags". Newsweek 51 no. 13, p. 96, March 1958.

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• I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

  Paul Kane

  Photography, Film, Wells

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• Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

  Ed Koch

  Motivational, Art, Pain

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• I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Writing, Men, Creative

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

  Abbey Lincoln

  Therapists, Couches, Brushes

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• The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

  George Lucas

  Moving, Artist, Technology

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• I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

  David Lynch

  Oil, Smell, House

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• A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

  David Lynch

  Hate, Thinking, Painting

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• I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

  Michelangelo

  Pressure, Under Pressure, Patron

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• I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

  Joni Mitchell

  Sleep, Order, Careers

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• Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

  Joni Mitchell

  Sleep, Thinking, Careers

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• To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Lazy, Film

  "Alan Moore: The reluctant hero", www.independent.co.uk. March 15, 2004.

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• Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.

  Mandy Moore

  Princess, Thinking, Towers

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• When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Party, Home, Hollywood

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• It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Writing, Garden, Facts

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• I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

  Grandma Moses

  Top Down, Sky, People

  Tampa Bay Magazine, p. 205, January/February 2008.

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• Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

  Edvard Munch

  People, Youth, Young

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• I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

  Ajay Naidu

  Theatre, Definitions, Broads

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• I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Hate, Flower

  Quoted in N.Y. Herald Tribune, 18 Apr. 1954

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• I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Scales

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