Quotes with paint

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  • Eric Hoffer More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Oscar Wilde Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oliver Cromwell Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Anthony Doerr My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Pablo Picasso Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Balthus Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Bob Ross People have success with this method and it gets them excited. It gets them hooked. You can put layers of thick paint on thin paint and that allows you to complete a painting in one sitting.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Paul Cézanne Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.
    Paul Cézanne
    French painter (1839 - 1906)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith 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
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe 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
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Carlo Ratti The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Caspar David Friedrich The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
    Caspar David Friedrich and romantic painting (1994 edition), Vilo International
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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  • Annie Dillard 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
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alan Moore To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Ross We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.'
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Bob Ross We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Arne Jacobsen 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
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Francois Cavanna When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
    Francois Cavanna
    French journalist and writer (1923 - 2014)
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