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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. - Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Nature, Flower, Beauty, Ignore, You

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

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

Dreams, Painting, Dream, I Dream, Then

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Flower, Sunset, Tree, You, Feel, Free

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

Heart, Creativity, Sketch, Follow, Own

Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

Blue, Tree, Yellow, Think, Color, Pink

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

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

Dreams, Reality, My Own, Never, Own

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. - Charles Dudley Warner

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Charles Dudley Warner

Art, Great, Small, Picture, Artist

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. - Philip Guston

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Art, Than, Rather, Picturing, Possessing

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

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

Art, You, Voice, Will, Say, Within

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. - Georgia O'Keeffe

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

Georgia O'Keeffe

New York, New, Rather, Felt, York

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

Drawing, Sketch, Tell, Just, Stories

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.

Children, Creativity, Child, You, Free

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

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

Vincent Van Gogh

Nature, Stars, Religion, Say, Need, Go

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

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

Alone, Best, I Am, Person, Know, Because

The more I paint the more I like everything.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Everything, More, Like

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

Light, Art, Me, Color, Portrait, Need

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.

Women, Angry, Black, Men, Youth, Grow

I wanted to paint with shadows and capture what light would look like in clothes.

Light, Look, Clothes, Shadows, Capture

I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.

Understand, Never, Up, Room, Yes, Studio

If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people.

Blue, Light, Green, Yellow, People, You

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.

You, Slavery, Uncle, Pen, See, Want

Often, when cheating happens, we rush to place blame solely on one person - either the person who did the cheating, or more insidiously, if it happened to us, we blame ourselves for not being 'good enough' to keep them around. But putting it all on one person doesn't paint the entire picture.

Emily V. Gordon

Good, Picture, Cheating, Blame, Place

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.

Woman, Man, Picture, World, Feel, She

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

School, I Am, Small, Award, Eagle, Place

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Rose, Creative, Forget, Difficult, Roses

I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.

Love, Work, Music, Home, Time, Loved

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