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“The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.”

People Believe May I Believe Issues Innovation Paint

Author:Ed Askew

“O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!”

Character Faces Sin Poor Promise Fairs Paint Lips Tongue Oil Mortals Poison Sinner Your Face True Character

Book:A Treatise on Atonement: In which the Finite Nature of Sin is Argued, Its Cause and Consequences as Such; the Necessity and Nature of Atonement; and Its Glorious Consequences, in the Final Reconciliation of All Men to Holiness and Happiness

Source: A Treatise on Atonement: In which the Finite Nature of Sin is Argued, Its Cause and Consequences as Such; the Necessity and Nature of Atonement; and Its Glorious Consequences, in the Final Reconciliation of All Men to Holiness and Happiness

“How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?”

“If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Today Picks Paint Ridiculous Absurd Noses Brushes

Book:Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse

Source: Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse

“[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint.”

Missing Poet Paint Melody This Day Diction

Author:Mary Russell Mitford

“A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.”

Writing Play Actors Waiting Musician Paint Painter Movie Actors

Book:A life on film

Source: A life on film

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

Thinking Love Writing Humans Sometimes Form Fear Situation Wonder Depression Madness Paint Manage Therapy Panic Inherent Sometimes I Wonder

Author:Graham Greene

“I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.”

Wells I Can Hands Eye Painting Paint Work Out

Author:Kathe Kollwitz

“There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning.”

Way Trying Painting Bigger Paint Surface Honestly Representation Wrong Way

Book:Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings

Source: Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings

“Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.”

Knows Sometimes Done Painting Fine Perfection Shining Clean Paint Quitting Polish

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“I paint my own reality.”

Art Reality My Own Painting Paint

Book:Frida Kahlo: the camera seduced

Source: Frida Kahlo: the camera seduced

“The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.”

Artist Keys Paint

Author:Lee Krasner

“Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.”

Mean Facts Reality Lying Evidence Paint Deception Range Subtle Crucial Polite Spinning Mislead Bending Omission Yarn Spinner

Book:unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation

Source: unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation

“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?”

Firsts Play Able Sound Black Differences White Emotion Music Color Picks Down And Notes Paint Guitar Extremes

Author:Les Paul

“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.”

Source: Paula Rego

“Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this human-wounded land: I was worth the while of living. Now my skill is dead. I should be.”

Should Humans Artist Poverty Land Skills Despair Paint Wounded Debacles

Author:Keri Hulme

“When I started to paint, I painted children because I just felt that I wanted to take their side. What always upset me was how children are getting abused simply because they are physically weaker and not capable of defending themselves - how they get raped, enslaved and killed. I never understood why some people seemed to have fun causing pain to someone smaller.”

People Children Wanted Pain Fun Felt Sides Capable Understood Paint Having Fun Upset Causing Pain

Author:Gottfried Helnwein

“Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.”

Looks Littles Ends Film Scene Harder Paint Surroundings Memento

Author:Susan Minot

“There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.”

“And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?”

Two Hands Dark Bird Paint Lovely Silk Fluttering

Book:I, Juan de Pareja

Source: I, Juan de Pareja

“Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.”

Events Built Structure Paint Plot Coats Divorced Inseparable Slap Characterization

Book:Dynamic Characters

Source: Dynamic Characters

“As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.”

Able Brain Tree Blue Paint

Author:Semir Zeki

“Republicans are already trying to paint Hillary Clinton as too old to be president. In fact, a new ad claims she’s so old that she could be a Republican.”

Trying Facts President Republican Claims Clinton Paint Ads

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I'm trying to paint an underwater ocean scene. It's just not working. My queen angelfish is supposed to have these bright yellow eyes and electric-blue stripes along the edge of her fin. Instead, it looks like I'm trying to paint a fried egg with some blue bacon. Maybe I can pass it off as postmodern.”

Trying Looks I Can Eye Scene Ocean Blue Paint Edges Queens Eggs Yellow Electric Stripes Underwater Postmodern Fins

Book:Something Like Fate

Source: Something Like Fate

“For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who lived in a caravan in Goldstream Park with a pack of dogs and a monkey and shunned the human race except to attend her own art openings? Only a genius could both paint and write my/her home.”

Writing Humans Long Art Home Race Tree Dog Genius Paint Setting Opening Settings Landscape Human Race Islands Parks Packs Monkeys Vancouver Caravans

Author:Marjorie Celona

“I am sort of proud that I think radio has become a dominant influence in shaping public opinion. Good radio paints the picture for the audience. The audience has to be actively involved. Sometimes, in television, you can get lulled into sleep watching the picture, not listening to what you're hearing.”

Thinking Sometimes Sleep Opinion Audience Influence Television Listening Proud Involved Paint Radio Hearing Dominant Public Opinion

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint it a different color, tear it down and build something new, or do anything they want.”

Want Book Different House Tears Color Hollywood Down And Paint Selling Something New Different Colors

Author:Rick Riordan

“Passion is what convinced armies that had no chance to win - it's believing that something can happen. Reality is what you make it to be. And when you're the only one who can see the way the future is going to be, you can be the tool that bends, rips, shapes and paints the future the way you want it to be. That's true passion!”

Way Want Believe Reality Happens Passion Winning Chance Shapes Tools Army Paint Convinced Be You Rip True Passion

Author:Garth Brooks

“In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.”

Firsts States Would Be United Class United States Car Equal Paint Satisfied Passengers Railroads

Author:Owen Wister

“the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.”

Writing Play Jazz Paint France

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.”

People Writing Paint

Author:Kathleen Winsor

“I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.”

People Firsts Art Shows Life Is Felt Too Much Art Is First Time Towns Paint China Sentences Drawing Innocent Canvas Portraits Conform Small Town Small Town Life Overreaction

Author:Alice Neel

“I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we have brought down from our barbarious ancestors. We have left off the war paint and war whoops, and we shall leave off the hangin' when we get civilized.”

Ideas War Shows Left Paint Folks Reform Ems Civilized Ancestor Savages Death Penalty War Paint

Author:Marietta Holley

“The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.”

Ifs Age Artist Color Theory Pure Paint Experiments Innocence Laboratory Liberated Best Work Impressionists Technical Knowledge

Book:Mary Cassatt

Source: Mary Cassatt

“Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.”

Looks Different Reason Simple Paint Vans Monet Renoir

Author:Mike Svob

“Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it.”

Years Stories Lasts Behinds Car Ten Paint Drivers Metals Plastic Rolling Diaries Chrome

Author:Jim Atkinson

“Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!”

People Littles Long Doe Sometimes Lying Education Paint Appearance Woods Dislike

Author:Lady Hester Stanhope

“when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.”

Way Has Beens Said Poetry Movement Paint Prose Sculpture

Author:Sybil Marshall

“I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see”

Author:N.D. Wilson

“I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.”

Way Mean Would Be Able Acting Focus Painting Pressure Paint Painter Grades Splits Reluctant Sixth Grade

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. And when an artist produces a good piece, that work has mystery, an unsaid quality; it is alive.”

Used Artist Quality Pieces Alive Mystery Produce Poet Paint Mediums Pot Unsaid

Book:The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu

Source: The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu

“I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.”

People Ends Picks Paint Clouds The End Of The Day Paintbrush

Author:Peter Capaldi

“Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?”

Kids Paint Chips

Author:Rob Lowe

“I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.”

Way Grows Decided Paint Medical Heal Surgery Procedures Medical Procedures

Author:Paz de la Huerta

“The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.”

Joy Song Gone Virtue Blood Painting Masters Fine Cold Paint

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“I love the look of buffed nails. They look neat and chic without actually having to paint your nails-and it takes no time!”

Looks Paint Nails Neat Chic

Author:Joy Bryant

“Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.”

Feels States Imagination Distance Misery Paint Desirable

Book:Rasselas

Source: Rasselas

“Don't you love it when people in school are like, “I'm a bad test taker”? You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle with that part where we find out what you know? Oh. No, no, I can totally relate. See, because I'm a brilliant painter, minus my God-awful brushstrokes. Oh, how the masterpiece is crystal up here, but once paint hits canvas, I develop Parkinson's.”

People Knows Mean I Can Humor School Funny Struggle Stupid Tests Paint Brilliant Painter Awful Relate Canvas Masterpiece Crystals Minus Parkinson Parkinson's You Re Stupid

Author:Daniel Tosh

“A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.”

Ifs Way Mean Body Film Artist Shadow Paint Makeup Get Real Faux Makeup Artist

Author:Jennifer Tilly

“I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, "God, they don't paint behind the sets." It's a bit of a shame, really - "Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood." I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.”

Thinking Kind Real Kids Remember Bits Sides Acting Behinds Wall Shame Paint Disappointed Thinking God

Author:Andy Serkis