"To paint nature you must be in it a long time."
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"Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you."
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"If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all."
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"Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing."
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"It's an honor to paint cats."
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"The lion is not so fierce as they paint him."
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"Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint."
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"I have a fierce desire to paint colour."
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"I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant."
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"I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work."
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"What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint."
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"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."
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"When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me."
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"Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint."
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"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 like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it."
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"I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it."
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"Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas."
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"Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration."
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"It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either."
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"One paints with one's head, not one's hand."
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