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“Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.”

Light Remember Faces Artist Fall Water Can Do Rooms Objects Flow Paint Candlelight

Author:Janet Fitch

“I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.”

I Can Paint Painter

Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud

“An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.”

Art Ideas Critics Paint Canvas Art Critic

Author:Robert Breault

“The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.”

Men Needs Wells Done Evil Voice White Clear Cutting Quiet Office Raises Moved Paint Cheeks Smooth Collars Dickens Dens Fingernails White Collar Quiet Man

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.”

Sea Rocks Paint Boldness

Book:Collected Poems 1909-1962

Source: Collected Poems 1909-1962

“I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable. He's not a gimpy gorilla like me.”

Thinking Guy Paint Like Me Pretending Dope Gorillas Getting Laid

Author:Joseph Bruce

“Keep evolving. Keep reading plays, doing plays, but also be sure to expand your horizons as much as possible. You only have yourself to bring to your work. You are your palette, so give yourself as many colors as possible to paint with.”

Giving Play Reading Color Paint Evolve Horizon Palette

Author:Gideon Glick

“A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.”

Feels Trying Wells Character Shows Happens Voice Figures Color Tvs Fit Horror Paint Suspense Frustration Dread Tv Shows Anger And Fear

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“And every dew-drop paints a bow.”

Paint Bows Dew

Book:In Memoriam

Source: In Memoriam

“He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.”

Painting Paint Wave Woods Dolphins Boars

Author:Horace

“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.”

Ifs Men Would Be Artist Tree He Man Flower Kings Photography Paint Photographer Surface

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.”

Should Breaths Paint Glasses Surface Application Thick

Book:Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice

Source: Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice

“It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.”

Men Wells Faces Artist He Man Painting One Day Models Paint Features Canvas Portraits Portraiture

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!”

Artist Students Paint Shock Great Art Great Artist Whistler

Author:James Whistler

“Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!”

Doe Lying Bits Infinite Paint Likes Realism Smallest

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”

Thinking Life Play Wonder Inspirational Life Balance Draws Dance Paint Balanced Life Balance Balanced Life Music And Dance Coping Mechanisms Work And Life Balance

Author:Robert Fulghum

“Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.”

Ends Hands Left Paint Boxes Bored Boredom Loose Ends

Book:Churchill on men and events: a selection from

Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from

“Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.”

Looks Fun Paint Lovely Colour Fascinating Delicious Absorbing Matching

Book:Churchill on men and events: a selection from

Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from

“I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.”

Joy Paint Enjoyment

Book:Churchill on men and events: a selection from

Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from

“A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.”

Trying Paint Delight Observation Chiefs

Book:Churchill on men and events: a selection from

Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from

“Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.”

Men Doe Wife Blind Paint Blindness Poor Richard Blind Man

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.”

Greater Fool Paint Drunk Pencils Madmen Drunkenness

Book:Blake: The Complete Poems

Source: Blake: The Complete Poems

“Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?”

Wells Kind May Done Eye Answers Figures Painting Paint Drawing Wit Public Eye Catalogues Figure Painting

Book:the works of thomas hood

Source: the works of thomas hood

“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

“To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.”

Reality Memories Attention Minutes Paint Fancy

Book:The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper

Source: The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper

“The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.”

Goal Method Paint Useless Linked My Thoughts Cubism

Author:Pablo Picasso

“If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.”

People Ifs Thinking Want May Mean Objects Paint Communism Representation Hammers

Author:Pablo Picasso

“If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.”

Ifs Would Be Political Politics Paint Unnecessary

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.”

Feelings Purpose Walks Vision Green Paint Forests Painter Sensations Indigestion

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.”

Should Firsts Humans Felt Interest Human Beings Interesting Paint Chairs

Author:Edvard Munch

“I only feel, but want the power to paint.”

Want Feels Painting Paint

Book:The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...

Source: The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...

“I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.”

Grief Wind Paint Shade Twilight Grey Bereavement Mourn

Author:Marge Piercy

“There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.”

Ifs Wells Painting Paint True Things

Book:Islands in the stream

Source: Islands in the stream

“I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.”

“What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.”

Mind Use Interest Imagination Pay Models Paint Studios Granted Bus Pencils Hail

Author:Edgar Degas

“If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh, I wouldn't want anyone killed. I'd be satisfied with just a little buckshot to begin with.”

People Ifs Want Littles Government Eye Paint Satisfied Landscape Policemen

Author:Edgar Degas

“I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.”

Wanted Essence Paint Soup

Author:Andy Warhol

“Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.”

Easy Paint Application Nothingness Slits

Book:Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer

Source: Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer

“I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.”

Thinking Knows Want Mean Feelings Sound Term My Own Expression Paint Dislike Cult Isms Expressionism Exponents

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.”

Giving Stills Lines Space Painting Expression Materials Paint Quests Manuals Still Life Tactile Cubism

Author:Georges Braque

“It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.”

Should Made Paint Sufficient Visible Tangible

Author:Georges Braque

“The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.”

Space Paint Dishes Pitcher Space Between

Author:Georges Braque

“The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.”

Light Form Realizing Lines Half Darkness Shadow Raises Paint Spots Sculpture Hollow Sculptors Ridges Light And Shadow Chisels

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.”

People Facts Fall Critics Paint Superficial Ugliness Reproach Vulgarity

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.”

Ideas Painting Paint

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.”

Mean Light Form Color Shadow Paint Texture

Author:Howard Pyle

“Paint ideas, paint thought.”

Ideas Paint

Author:Howard Pyle

“I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.”

Knows Looks Eye White Paint Conviction Strikes Spots Boards

Book:Van Gogh's

Source: Van Gogh's

“In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.”

Education Paint Glad

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph.”

Ifs Different Jobs Easy Opinion Advantage Paint Rate Photograph Oneself Deeper Resemblance Impressionism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

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