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Paint Quotes by James Whistler
- If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would…
- Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.
- It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to…
- A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when…
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- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu
- All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It… — David Bailey
- Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could… — Amy Adams
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper,… — Roseanne Barr
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many… — Dan Brown
- Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at… — Steve Albini
- Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so… — William S. Burroughs
- I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to… — Sophia Bush
- I'd like to write the way Matisse paints. — A. S. Byatt
- But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and… — Lord Byron