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Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then paints in all… — Amber Benson
A friend of mine says his two favorite artists are Picasso and Rembrandt. Picasso because he paints the beautiful in such an ugly fashion. And… — Anna Torv
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do… — Lani Guinier
If you donâ€™t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian languageâ€¦ you canâ€™t chant well. You cannotâ€¦ receive the images of poetry paints… — Keali'i Reichel
Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a… — Dan Harris
Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to shareâ€”he cannot help itâ€”what… — Madeleine L'Engle
Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that,… — Eric Carle
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels… — Meg Rosoff
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a… — Lydia M. Child
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels… — David Sylvester
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime. — Thomas Hood
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above… — Gustav Klimt
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening -… — Gustav Klimt
I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around… — Childe Hassam
A painter paints because he has no time not to paint. — Josef Albers
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion. — John Armstrong
Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed.… — Megan Hart
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both… — Robert Motherwell

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