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Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself. — Henrik Ibsen
Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given… — Henri Matisse
Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on,… — Georgia O'Keeffe
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs… — Simone Weil
If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my… — John Lyly
I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing… — John Berger
The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and… — David Hockney
Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers. — Guillaume Apollinaire
I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you… — Louise Erdrich
Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick… — Forest Whitaker
Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November. — Norman Tebbit
In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other… — Stan Smith
Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work. — William Morris Hunt
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt,… — Mervyn Peake
If a man's handshake is no good all the {legal} paper in the world won't make it good. — Richard J. Daley
Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend… — Marlene Dumas
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of… — Alberto Giacometti
Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal,… — David Milne
Throw away those little pieces of paper. Get yourself a big, beautiful canvas. Bring from this nature the most beautiful colors. Find the serene scene… — Prem Rawat
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper… — Herbert Gold
The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. — Sylvia Porter
I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final… — M H Abrams
Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were… — Joan Miro
No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a… — John Newman
Doing a background check is still a very manual process, because the government agencies that create the records are largely paper-based systems. I'm not going… — James Lee

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