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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it. — Al McGuire
He best can paint them who shall feel them most. — Alexander Pope
I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The mind paints before the brush. — James Ellis
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything,… — Keith Haring
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he… — Leonardo da Vinci
I paint in order not to cry. — Paul Klee
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. — Eugenio Montale
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on. — Terry Brooks
Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit. — Robert Henri
I don't paint to live, I live to paint. — Willem de Kooning
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls… — Philip Guston
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. — Balthus
One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men. — Henri Michaux
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. — Peter Max
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within,… — Caspar David Friedrich
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures. — Martin Kippenberger
So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into… — Georgia O'Keeffe

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