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Quote Left I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. Quote Right
Quote Left Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called if 'Chops' because that was the name of his dog And that's what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and a gold star And his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his aunts That was the year Father Tracy took all the kids to the zoo And he let them sing on the bus And his little sister was born with tiny toenails and no hair And his mother and father kissed a lot And the girl around the corner sent him a Valentine signed with a row of X's and he had to ask his father what the X's meant And his father always tucked him in bed at night And was always there to do it Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines he wrote a poem And he called it 'Autumn' because that was the name of the season And that's what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and asked him to write more clearly And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because of its new paint And the kids told him Father Tracy smoked cigars And left butts on the pews And sometimes they would burn holes That was the year his sister got glasses with thick lenses and black frames And the girl around the corner laughed when he asked her to go see Santa Claus And the kids told him why his mother and father kissed a lot And his father never tucked him in bed at night And his father got mad when he cried for him to do it Once on a paper torn from his notebook he wrote a poem And he called it 'Innocence: A Question' because that was the question about his girl And that's what it was all about And his professor gave him an A and a strange steady look And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because he never showed her That was the year Father Tracy died And he forgot how the end of the Apostle's Creed went And he caught his sister making out on the back porch And his mother and father never kissed or even talked And the girl around the corner wore too much makeup That made him cough when he kissed her but he kissed her anyway because that was the thing to do And at three A.M. he tucked himself into bed his father snoring soundly That's why on the back of a brown paper bag he tried another poem And he called it 'Absolutely Nothing' Because that's what it was really all about And he gave himself an A and a slash on each damned wrist And he hung it on the bathroom door because this time he didn't think he could reach the kitchen Quote Right
Quote Left I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of 'Admin.' The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. Quote Right
Quote Left If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors. Quote Right
Quote Left Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp,To guard a title that was rich before,To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,To throw a perfume on the violet,To smooth the ice, or add another hueUnto the rainbow, or with taper lightTo seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Quote Right
Quote Left Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings Quote Right
Quote Left Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! Quote Right
Quote Left In describing the Mound-builders no effort has been made to paint their costume, their modes of life or their system of government. They are presented to the reader almost exclusively under a single aspect, and under the influence of a single emotion. It matters not to us whether they dwelt under a monarchical or popular form of polity; whether king or council ruled their realms; nor, in fine, what was their exact outward condition. It is enough for us to know, and enough for our humanity to inquire, that they existed, toiled, felt and suffered; that to them fell, in these pleasant regions, their portion of the common heritage of our race, and that around those ancient hearth-stones, washed to light on the banks of the far western rivers, once gossiped and enjoyed life, a nation that has utterly faded away. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others. Quote Right
Quote Left It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his "nocturnes" answered: "All of my life." With the same rigor he c... Quote Right
Quote Left One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. Quote Right
Quote Left I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. Quote Right
Quote Left It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his 'nocturnes' answered: 'All of my life.' With the same rigor he c... Quote Right
Quote Left What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images. Quote Right
Quote Left Memories are the most beautiful pictures our minds can paint, and nothing can ever erase them. Quote Right
Quote Left Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. Quote Right
Quote Left Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue hues that any professional artist would dismiss as the work of some enthsiastic amateur who'd never looked at a real sunset. This was one of those sunrises. It was the kind of sunrise a man looks at and says, 'No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.' Nevertheless, it was beautiful. Quote Right
Quote Left A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen. Quote Right
Quote Left It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty. Quote Right
Quote Left I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots. Quote Right
Quote Left A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. Quote Right
Quote Left 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 Quote Right
Quote Left Bid her paint till day of doom, To this favour she must come.... Quote Right
Quote Left Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Ho... Quote Right
Quote Left Alas, poor Yorick I knew him, Horatio a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now your gambols, your songs your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar Not one now, to mock your own grinning Quite chap-fallen Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it. Quote Right
Quote Left Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time. Quote Right
Quote Left That's not painting, that's Paint-By-Numbers. That's therapy for the artistically challenged. That's what they prescribe for cretins in dayrooms. Quote Right
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Member Quotes About Paint

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Quote Left "Our ink to our words is our paint as writers." Quote Right
Quote Left "Paint your words with pretty colors, as you paint your pretty eggs with color" Quote Right
Quote Left "Our lies can claim the moment, I say truth owns the future standing firm like a mountain against the tide. Deceit can paint a picture for a while, I say only truth can reveal the masterpiece beneath. The truth doesn’t demand our belief, I say it exists whether we choose to see it or not." - Daniel Henry Rodgers Quote Right
Quote Left A well-lived life is a masterpiece of moments, painted with purpose, love, and the vibrant hues of cherished memories. Quote Right
Quote Left I’ve always been painted the colors of an outcast, they just became more vivid when I got injured and was reminded I have to get back up all by myself. Quote Right
Quote Left Let me dwell in the Istanbul of your heart, For many trees had grown taller-tallest there, Which were sown by Emperor Constantine, And later got cut equally by Sultan Mehmed of the Ottomans. How do you paint the portrait of my love for you? Quote Right
Quote Left The truest art is found inside the brush; not in the paint, nor the painter..... the picture only gets better with time. Quote Right
Quote Left Sunsets are end of the day’s magnificent touch, painted from God’s magical brush. Quote Right
Quote Left "Painters paint with paint. Writers paint with words." Quote Right
Quote Left "We paint our words with ink." Quote Right
Quote Left Thy father who art in heaven already painted your story. Just ask for insight, so you can add your own beauty... Quote Right
Quote Left "Paint with paint or paint with words." Quote Right
Quote Left "One can paint with paints. One can paint with words." Quote Right
Quote Left "God bring His paints out to paint the night sky." Quote Right
Quote Left "Words are paint on paper." Quote Right
Quote Left p.s. poetry is just life painted in cursive... Quote Right
Quote Left Always try to paint ugly lives Through your words. Quote Right
Quote Left Love is an artist, painting souls with colors unseen by casual observers. - Aloo Denish Obiero Quote Right
Quote Left Every stumble is a step closer to mastery; perseverance paints the path. -Aloo Denish Obiero Quote Right
Quote Left "If I am disgusted for being a lazy in solid works, I am be loved for being a hardworker in soft works. The solid works can be benefited by very few people within some countable moments, while the works of pen and brush (soft works) can be benefited by all and the coming generations. So every da Vinci has his own brush to paint his own Lisa." Quote Right
Quote Left Poetry is the language of the soul, a canvas where emotions paint their most vibrant hues. Each verse, a brushstroke, weaves a tapestry of feelings, thoughts, and dreams. Quote Right
Quote Left “The secret of eternal youth is to stay young in one’s own heart. Outer appearances may fade like an old photograph or painting of one’s life but the inner appearance can shine with a radiance of hope, expectation, childlike optimism and dreams. Old with wisdom but young with wonder.” Quote Right
Quote Left "A writer uses paper to write on. Words are their paint and brings their poems to life. A painter uses caverns. Paint brings their painting to life." Quote Right
Quote Left "Reality is a canvas, and we are the painters. We choose the colors of our existence and the brushstrokes that shape our destiny." Quote Right
Quote Left A mother's love is the purest form of magic; a selfless masterpiece that knows no boundaries, defies all odds and endures all obstacles and challenges; it's a love painted with sacrifice, unrivalled dedication and unmatched devotion. Motherhood is indeed an act of unwavering faith and limitless optimism in the future wellbeing of a child ~ Aloo Denish Quote Right
Quote Left "God's pretty colors paint a pretty day for us to enjoy." Quote Right
Quote Left A bruised heart scorned, sacred vows of a saint, sorrows of unrequited lover's—art, is what you paint—I Am Anaya Quote Right
Quote Left The darkest full moon paints with the brightest fire. Quote Right
Quote Left "Art can come from anywhere. Paint with paint or paint with words." Quote Right
Quote Left Poetry is painting, not with lines and shapes and colors, but with words. Quote Right
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