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• For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

  Paul Cézanne

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Paint, Painters

• I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Paint, Pity

• I’d say mostly I paint hot chicks.

  Bam Margera

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hot, Paint, Chicks

• I like to paint nudes mostly.

  Cleo Moore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Paint

• A ship is always referred to as “she” because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Keep, Paint, Always

• I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

  Bob Dylan

  Topics in Life, Work

  Tags in Curtain, Paint

• Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

  Edvard Munch

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Paint

• It’s to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that’s my method.

  Edward Hopper

  Topics in Business, Funny

  Tags in Canvas, Paint

• Maybe I am not very human – what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

  Edward Hopper

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Paint, Sunlight

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

  Edward Hopper

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Paint, Sunlight

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

  Richard Linklater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Films, Paint

• I don’t have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

  Abbey Lincoln

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Therapist, Paint

• I can’t write, I can’t paint, I don’t compose.

  Richard Attenborough

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Write, Paint, Compose

• David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what’s the best film you’ve made and so on and I don’t really have any hesitation that the film I’m least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.

  Richard Attenborough

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Paint, Said

• Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

  Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Paint, Obliges

• What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

  Raoul Dufy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Paint, Eyes, Heart

• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

  Honoré de Balzac

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Paint, Hand, Eye, Could

• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Topics in Ability, Effort

  Tags in Pass, Possess, Restless, Situation, Therefore, Unproductive, Unseemly, Burning, Artistic, Urge, Write, Paint, Sweet, Eat, True, Feeling, Few, Very, Simply, Will, Both, Something, Irritate, Making

• Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

  Russell Banks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shaped, Paint, Journalist

• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Paint, Thinks, Imagination