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A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but I think if the picture is made in MS Paint, the going rate might be slightly less. Alexandra Petri

Words Worth Made Picture Think Slightly Rate Going May Might Less Paint

You should wear what you want to wear and not worry about trying to paint yourself in a certain image because that self-awareness is what's going to help you become a more independent and more interesting and healthier adult. Alexandra Robbins

You can sometimes avoid costly mistakes. Paint a corner of the room a certain color to see how the light affects it. Or buy just one yard of an expensive fabric to see how you like it in your room. Alexandra Stoddard

When I'm working, I'm pretty busy with that, but when I'm not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz bars and stuff, and then I mainly paint every day. It's kind of like a different side of my mind I like to use, and it keeps the other one fresh, and yeah, writing, I've been writing with some friends. Alia Shawkat

Music Day Every Day Writing Mind Jazz Busy Every Other Side Kind Some Pretty Mainly Stuff Like Sing Make Fresh Yeah Been Friends Different Then Working Use Paint Bars Keeps

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else? Alice Sebold

All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time, and I like it. Alison Mosshart

Art Time Suitcase Mediums Pretty Throw Like Dry Because Pass Always Got Go Quickly Done Them Much Paint

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight. Allen West

I read very one-note. Teacher's pet, Goody Two-shoes. I'd hate to be annoying. Who wants to see movies with someone annoying in them? But it's hard for me to paint myself as anything but whatever it is I come across as - which is pretty together. Allison Williams

I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer. Amitava Kumar

Become Year Fall Though Writer Had Study Come Arrived Began Intending Graduate After Literature Paint Even

Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented. Amy Sherald

I paint paintings of people. Amy Sherald

People Paint Paintings

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create. Amy Sherald

People Tell Through American Stories American People Create Paint Paintings

I was shadow health secretary for six years, and the beauty of being in opposition - if there is any beauty - is that you tend to get a pretty unvarnished view because no one bothers to paint the coal white before you turn up. Andrew Lansley

For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president. Andrew Rosenthal

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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. Annie Dillard

World Bears Self He Most Himself Contents Does Fit Fits Certainly Inherited Paint Who Painter Paints Servant

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. Annie Parisse

Relate Way Photographer Visual Visual Arts Am Arts Paint Painter

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters. Ansel Elgort

Personality Important Every Think Bit Characters Stay Scattered Part Rock Climb Little Little Bit Paint Connected Play Play Basketball Basketball

I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils. Anthony Browne

Love Me Too Late Too Late Way Paper Pencils Some Computers Develop Still Impressed Paint Start Images

It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place. Barbara Cooney

Life Me Photography Quality Light My Life Sense Mood Paramount Able Spirit Through Importance Until Became Discovered Began Decade Gradually Place Then Fifth Forties Paint Travels

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly. Berkeley Breathed

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I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint. Bill Viola

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