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“I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.”

Persons I Can Book Beautiful Water Accepting Roles Paint Recognition Idiot Vans Lilies Being A Kid Monet Water Lily

Author:Maurice Sendak

“It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.”

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Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.”

I Can Knowing Risk Paint Caught Willingness Hesitation

Author:Brian Johnson

“No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.”

Long I Can Jobs Pieces Paper Draws Paint Drawing Pencils

Author:John Newman

“Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for.”

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Author:John Newman

“Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.”

Firsts I Can Powerful Subjects Paint Obvious Obvious Things

Author:Richard Schmid

“I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.”

Way Trying I Can Turns Aspect Paint Manage Landscape Manipulation Manipulate Pictorial Pretty Places

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.”

Art I Can Paint Shoes Guts Strings Lard

Author:George Luks

“I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.”

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Author:Stuart Pearson Wright

“I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.”

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Author:Norval Morrisseau

“Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People say "I have no talent -- I can't dance or sing or paint or write poetry or play an instrument." More often than not the doors are not locked, just closed. One may turn the handle, open the door and pass through into a larger life space.”

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Author:Robert Fulghum

“What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.”

I Can Able Artist Draws Paint

Book:Portrait of David Hockney

Source: Portrait of David Hockney

“This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.”

World I Can Shows Bigs Missing Paint Details Drawing Rectangles

Author:Wolfgang Pauli

“Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.”

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Author:John Constable

“When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.”

Ifs Men Giving I Can Beautiful Poor Study Saws Circumstances Paint Naked Beautiful Things

Book:Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Source: Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

“My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.”

Ifs Giving Long I Can Different Left Black Rooms Acting Stage Color Painting Directors Red Green Paint Metaphor Brown Editing Really Great Purple Acting In Movies Red And Black

Author:Scott Glenn

“I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.”

Ifs I Can Language My Own Honesty Paint Oneself Admire Being True Ruthless True To Oneself

Author:Scott Kahn

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