J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on"
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Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork."
Georgia O'Keeffe
Artist
"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."
Nikos Kazantzakis
Novelist, Playwright
"You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go."
Frida Kahlo
Painter
"I paint flowers so they will not die."
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"A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big."
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"It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint."
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"Life obliges me to do something, so I paint."
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"I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture."
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"All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere."
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"I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house."
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"I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint."
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"I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas."
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"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see."
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"I don't say everything, but I paint everything."
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"I paint flowers to prevent them from dying"
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"I paint what I think, not what I see."
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"I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be."
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"The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless."
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"If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?"
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"To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere."
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"With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures."
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"Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime."
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"I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint."
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"Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead."
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