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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sens...

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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sens...

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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sens...

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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sens...

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In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with...

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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from a...

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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to he...

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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the poi...

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It was any outcast's nightmare.If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black ...

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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of p...

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O. HenryThe Complete Works of O. Henry

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional...

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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will ...

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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...

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... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell ...

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I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experi...

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Paint the essential character of things.

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.

For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. ...

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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, wi...

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like ma...

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What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.