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• I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, People

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• One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, New York, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.77, Infobase Publishing

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• Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Mean, Thinking

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

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• I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

  Rick Perry

  School, Awards, Texas

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Hundred, Theme

  Pablo Picasso, Daniel Robbins (1979). “Picasso's Vollard Suite”

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• And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Air, Would Be, Way

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• I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

  Man Ray

  Dream, Art, Collective Unconscious

  "Man Ray: Photographer". Interview with Philippe Sers in Camera, 1981.

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• In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

  Tom Robbins

  Wall, Writing, Clouds

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• Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

  Paul Ryan

  Believe, Thinking, Government

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• The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

  Jose Saramago

  Believe, Writing, Artist

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.

  Adam Savage

  Jobs, Long, Stories

  "Adam Savage makes an alien helmet replica". www.wired.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

  Charles Schumer

  Jobs, Ideas, Accomplishment

  Chuck Schumer's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

  Maurice Sendak

  Renaissance, Surface, Advise

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• Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

  Jane Seymour

  Art, Character, Television

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• The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'

  William Shatner

  Hurt, Essence, Balls

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• I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

  Ed Sheeran

  Song, Artist, Musician

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

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• Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.207, Wordsworth Editions

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• Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

  Grace Slick

  Singers, Used, Jerry

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• The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don't stand back and wonder what it is. That's Jim Morrison, that's a panda, that's a scene on the West Coast. It's not abstract.

  Grace Slick

  Simple, Rocks, Talking

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• I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Children, Believe, People

  "An independent Scotland could not pay welfare bill, says Iain Duncan Smith". www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2012.

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• One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Miracle, Doe

  "Paris France". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1940.

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• I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

  Mike Thompson

  Records, Painting, Problem

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• I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

  Kiana Tom

  Friends, Painting, Enjoy

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• Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.

  Steven Tyler

  Color, Black, Way

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