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My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered. -- David Einhorn
Every good painter paints what he is. -- Jackson Pollock
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. -- Jackson Pollock
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. -- Michelangelo
I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture. -- Rachel Bilson
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. -- Ellen Key
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime. -- Thomas Hood
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. -- Peter Max
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. -- Eugenio Montale
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen. -- Lauren DeStefano
When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas. -- Viggo Mortensen
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. -- Pablo Picasso
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. -- Jasper Johns
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. -- Mark Rothko
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits. -- Gustav Klimt
The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then. -- Debbie Allen
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens. -- Jose Saramago
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. -- Annie Dillard
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. -- Grandma Moses
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures. -- Meg Rosoff
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be. -- Bertie Carvel
Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman. -- Mandy Moore
The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it. -- Norman Rockwell
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative. -- Steve Prefontaine
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative. -- Steve Prefontaine
One never paints violently enough. -- Eugene Delacroix
History paints the human heart. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Rhetoric paints with a broad brush. -- George Carlin
Satan paints sin with virtues colors. -- Thomas Brooks
The mind paints before the brush. -- James Ellis
An artist paints his own reality. -- Ernie Barnes
And every dew-drop paints a bow. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every good painter paints what he is -- Jackson Pollack
oil paints...the look of licked lips. -- Margaret Atwood
The soul paints itself in our machines. -- Joseph Joubert
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Thoughts frame your portrait, action paints it. -- Charles F. Glassman
Every picture one paints involves not painting others. -- Robert Motherwell
One paints with one's head, not one's hand. -- Michelangelo
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints. -- A. S. Byatt
Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I'm not some kind of machine that paints pictures. -- Stuart Pearson Wright
She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail. -- Benjamin Franklin
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions. -- Pablo Picasso
Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas. -- Swami Vivekananda
Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past. -- Mason Cooley
A painter paints because he has no time not to paint. -- Josef Albers
One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings. -- Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind. -- Okakura Kakuzo
Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem. -- R.F. Georgy
Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye' -- Kevin Keegan
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. -- Horace
The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages. -- Brendan Sexton III
The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages. -- Brendan Sexton III
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
It is the crimson tongue that paints the world others think they see. -- A.J. Darkholme
Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints... -- Joni Mitchell
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. -- Leopold Stokowski
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. -- Otto Dix
My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out. -- Caio Fonseca
Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work. -- Alexander Pope
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. -- Adolf Hitler
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. -- Mary Astor
How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled! -- Thomas Hood
One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur. -- Georges Vantongerloo
Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity. -- Ravi Zacharias
Just as a painter paints,and a ponderer ponders,a writer writes,and a wanderer wanders. -- Roman Payne
It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible. -- Georges Braque
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. -- Max Nordau
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work. -- Pablo Picasso
The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem'ries, Picasso your dreams. -- Robert Breault
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men. -- Eugene Delacroix
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion. -- John Armstrong
The painter paints his brushes blackThrough the canvas runs a crackPortrait of the pain never answers back. -- Phil Ochs
If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week! -- L. S. Lowry
If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels.... -- Josh Stern
Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions. -- Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments. -- John McLaughlin
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center. -- Steven Pressfield
The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead. -- Criss Jami
How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread. -- Gerhard Richter
Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape? -- Franz Marc
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit. -- Saint Augustine
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry. -- Man Ray
As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always. -- Brahmananda Saraswati
You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette. -- Dave Genn
The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries. -- James Elkins
I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid -- Joni Mitchell
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward. -- Vincent Van Gogh
His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow. -- Jodi Picoult
It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it. -- Joe Bradley
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing. -- Irving Stone
All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world. -- Rollo May
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done -- Pablo Picasso
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age. -- Vera Nazarian
Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. -- Henry Rollins
If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him. -- George R. R. Martin
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run -- Steve Prefontaine
It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand ... -- Elsie de Wolfe
When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead. -- George D. Prentice
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. -- Pablo Picasso
When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic. -- John Ruskin
He carries stars in his pocketsbecause he knowsshe fears the dark.Whenever sadness pays her a visithe paints galaxieson the back of her hands. -- Alaska Gold
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints. -- Pablo Picasso
The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth. -- Dean Koontz
My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind. -- Horace Pippin
I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him. -- Childe Hassam
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. -- Grace Slick
Something in me knows where I'm going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. -- Jackson Pollock
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it." -- Shakespeare
The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture. -- Sherrod Brown
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Body will again become restless Until your soul paints all its beauty Upon the Sky ... For when the heart tastes its glorious destiny And you awake ... -- Hafez
Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced. -- Jim Rowe

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