"I never draw except with brush and paint."
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"Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again."
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"My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation."
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"I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry."
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"Boys can be disgusting. You can't leave us alone for any length of time because we will burn something, blow something up or paint something. We're just obnoxious."
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"All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?"
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"It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing."
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"I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes."
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"Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly."
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"If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!"
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"My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted."
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"A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair."
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"All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best."
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"A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint."
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"I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment."
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"Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands."
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"We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses."
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"I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint."
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"My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself."
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"In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint."
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