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If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.

I had some highlight moments in the early '60s when I used to do a lot of rubbings. I used Afta; it's an amazing chemical. If you pour it on something and rub, you get amazing results. Before that, I used lighter fluid and, well, I've always liked blood. Everybody thinks I am very sick, but the thing is, blood is better than any ink or paint.

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.

I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

I just can't seem to paint nice things.

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

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

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

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

I may paint flat, but I don't think flat.

I’m actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

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

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

I'm not some kind of machine that paints pictures.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint.

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

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

In case you still haven't figured it out, he loves you. Your tiger will be back in the morning, and you can thank me anytime. Now, do I have to paint another picture for you, or do you think you can take it from here by yourself without screwing up?

I never draw except with brush and paint.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.