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

— Emily Carr

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✓Similar Perspectives

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

— Man Ray

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

— Barbara Smith

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

— Max Beckmann

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

— Rene Magritte

When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Russell Banks

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

— Sylvester Stallone

✗Opposing Perspectives

I write what I see; I paint what I am.

— Etel Adnan

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

— Otto Dix

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

— Lucian Freud