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It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

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.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

I was never one to paint space, I paint air.

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

I would say - and paint doesn't peel unless it's acrylic paint, so maybe it is acrylic paint that they're using, not oil paint. So let me say yes, it would be acrylic house paint, which, when it dries, peels very nicely. So let's go with that.

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

Live to paint, don't paint to live.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

Matte or satin sheen scuffs up very easily. So, unless you have it professionally done, definitely paint shelves or cabinets with something with a higher sheen.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

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.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.

Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.

It's an honor to paint cats.

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.

I wanna be free. Free to scream, free to bathe, free to paint my toes all day.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

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

I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.

No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

oil paints...the look of licked lips.

One never paints violently enough.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.