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Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills. ↗

— John Milius

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Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition. ↗

— Matthew Modine

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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

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Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

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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

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