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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh

Cannot, Means, Within

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.
Marilyn Monroe

Important, Someone, Woman

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

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

Dream, Painting

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale

Happy, Yourself, Mind

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

Music, Peace, Write

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene

Fear, Human, Writing

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
Bob Dylan

Life, Work, Design

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso

Face, Behind, Inside

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso

Child, Took, Four

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

Religion, Stars, Word

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
Steven Wright

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz

True, Feeling, Write

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso

Today, Why, Sense

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
Bill Hicks

Black, Television, Taking

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

Truth, Same, Theme

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

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

Eyes, Write, Writer

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali

Person, Rather, Grow

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo

Dreams, Reality, Nightmares

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
Toni Morrison

Life, Beauty, Remember

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord Byron

Hope, Truth, Nothing

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Paul Cezanne

Nature, Realize, Subject

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Hate, Move, Flowers

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo

Best, Alone, Person

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Time, Society, Through

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.
Grandma Moses

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum

Life, Work, Live

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