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" Actors on stage, you can go from playing a myriad of roles, from Shakespeare to a Eugene O'Neil drama, and it's the norm. I came up in a world where you're supposed to be able to do three things very well. Act, sing, dance, paint, do something. The emphasis was on versatility. "

" All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art. "

" All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere. "

" Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. "

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

" An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint. "

" An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part. "

" An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. "

Willem de Kooning

" And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting. "

Robert Rauschenberg

" Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same. "

" Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook. "

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

" Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint. "

" Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy. "

" As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does. "

" A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. "

Chester W. Nimitz

" As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again. "

" At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them. "

" At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian. "

" Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. "

" Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint. "

Fernando Botero

" Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?' "

" But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not. "

" 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. "

" Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. "

" Clive Barker is just genius, and he's incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and do all these different things, and he can do them all extremely well. "

" David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. "

" Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. "

" Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. "

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