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Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.

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.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.

The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.

The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

The mind paints before the brush.

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it... What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it's craft.

The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

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

The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that is extremely hardy and repairable.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession requires an unruffled temper.

The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.

Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its general value.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

We don't have to make toys that are coated with lead paint in China. We can make good toys in Alabama and North Carolina.

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

Use lots of paint and don't worry, they will make more.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the premise. So you have to create the premise, paint the picture and then deliver the punch line.

We only have our nervous system to paint.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

We're making so many images today and it's unbelievable. I shoot stuff all the time. I try to figure a lot out before I paint. I do a tremendous amount of shooting.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

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.

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

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