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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Dream Paint Painting Then
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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Am Appear Beautiful Clarity
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I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Am Both Cannot Create
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The most expensive part of any manufacturing unit is the paint shop.

Any Expensive Manufacturing Most
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Able Abstract Alone Being
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I love painting and have a need to do it.

I Love Love Need Painting
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I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Act Everything Just Paint
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I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

Almost Another Any Asking
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I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Act Could Different DifferentThings
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Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

Events Way Sometimes
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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.

Buy Came Challenge Did
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

Artist Emotions Pictures Every
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Abstract Attempts Escape Essential
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

Analysis Delay Dynamic Means
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Great His Language Limits
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The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

Feel Ability Singer Art
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For men led by the Colour, and the Shape, Like Zeuxes Birds fly to the painted Grape; Some things do through our Judgment pass As through a Multiplying Glass. And sometimes, if the Object be too far, We take a Falling Meteor for a Star.

Star Far Shape Falling
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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Movie Long Script Been
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Artist Every Feeling Painted
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

Always Books Darker Drama
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

Deserves Everybody Literature Lives
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Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times

Able Actor Artist Great
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Art Arts College Fine
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Bright Picture Happy Expectations
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Painting Poetry Silent Speaks
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Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

Republicans Always Try To
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

Art Dead Exhibit Feet
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

About Deep Father Fear
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
Speak Softly Carry Big
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Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.
Painting Mean Describing State
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For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Painting Easy Who Difficult
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Only Longer Knows Painter
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Painting Idea Give True
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Painting Easy Know-how Very
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The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

Painting Heart Telling Salvation
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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. Together

Painting Poetry Chooses Universal
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In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
Need Color Light Shade
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The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Free Soul Abstract Painting
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

Any Cannot Colors Grade
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Sunlight is painting.
Literature Painting Sunlight Personification
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Always Art Beautiful Compliment
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A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

Painter World Craftsman People
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If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

Read poem World Good one
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

Been Destruction Examining Fears
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If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
Ever Floor Painted Risks
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You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
Brush Paint You Your
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In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

Calling Fact InFact Painter
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90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

Art Dance Drive Every
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My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.
Paint Job Know See
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To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

Beautiful Art Select Painter Art Is Admirable
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