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Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

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.

Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.

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.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.

Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

Don't paint the apple; paint the red.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the the effect of my work.

Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?

Everyday's a good day when you paint

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.

Every picture one paints involves not painting others.

Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water in order to learn how to swim.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

Favorite color to paint my nails is black, always.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

George Clooney is on the program tonight. Next week at this time I will be in a hardware store watching them mix paint.

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.

I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can massage it. But if I don't have anything to work with, then there's nothing.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.