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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid… — Jackson Pollock
I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident. — Jackson Pollock
He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ. — Fra Angelico
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by… — Denis Diderot
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order… — Otto Dix
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves. — Oskar Kokoschka
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as… — Edvard Munch
I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say… — Edvard Munch
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. — Madeleine L'Engle
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my… — Ralph Bakshi
At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband… — Maggie Gallagher
All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere. — Maurice Denis
A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which… — Paul Gauguin
If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. — Raoul Dufy
Paint the essential character of things. — Camille Pissarro
Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint… — Camille Pissarro
I paint what I see and not what others like to see. — Edouard Manet
There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All… — Edouard Manet

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