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Painting is a strange business.
Painting Strange Business Is a
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Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

Architecture Painting Company Nose
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Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Always Am Color Happy
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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Art Expression Forms Further
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

He Paint Painter Seen
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The U.N. must be a good steward of the funds entrusted to it. Abuse and waste are therefore not a mere public relations problem. Institutional reform is not a one-off event, like applying a fresh coat of paint.

Abuse Applying Coat Entrusted
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

After Among Because Bought
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Mathematician Painter Poet Permanent
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I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Actor Corner Fun IThink
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

Because Control Could Creative
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Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
Clown Paintings Sad Seen
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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
Big Canvas Great Life
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It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
Matter Badly Paint People
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

Also Always Artist Bunch
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I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Been Bush His Interested
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My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Bit Cover Fact Few
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The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
Technology Keep moving Easier Tell
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When I make music and I'm talking on records, it's like I'm painting a picture. In my mind, I'm seeing a film.
Film Like Make Mind
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things

Paint things Difference between
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I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
Literally paint Emotion Produce
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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted

More difficult Truly creative Painter
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

Never ruin Painting Truth
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

Astonishing Understanding Art
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A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.
New painting Birth Universe Human mind
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

About Acquainted After Aware
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Every good painter paints what he is.
Every Good He Painter
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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Contact Easy Give Give And Take
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My painting does not come from the easel.
Come Does Painting Easel
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

Before Canvas Ever Hardly
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Am Around Ease Feel
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Away Brushes Continue Etc
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

When Am Aware Doing
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Because Changes Destroying Etc
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Arriving Been Difference Has Been
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Abstract Any Back Beginning
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

Different Go Matter Modern
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Come Life Own Painting
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Bound Emerge Figures Little
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Amount Center Depend Interest
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Age Airplane Any Artists
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Color Drawings Final Make
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Artist Every Good He
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Drove Hard He His
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Every artist Own soul Nature
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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

Actor Actually Around Because
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Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Being Deep Different DifferentThings
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I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Across Acting Actually Been
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When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

Allow Being BeingDone Children
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Always Artist Chicks Like
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The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees
Most interesting Painting Expresses One thinks
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