{"quotes":[{"text":"I miss being in Barbados in December,That is a time I always remember,The smell of varnish on the wooden floors,And the smell of paint on the wooden doorsThe crowds in de Supermarket,Buying up the rum,And the music blastingPuh rup a pum pum.","author":"Charmaine J Forde","tags":["barbados","crowds","december","music","paint","puh-rup-a-pum-pum","remember","rum","varnish","wooden-floors"],"id":4437,"author_id":"Charmaine+J+Forde"},{"text":"I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.","author":"O. Henry","tags":["art","arts","bullets","music","paint","painting","soft-bullet"],"id":13798,"author_id":"O.+Henry"},{"text":"If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.","author":"Duane Hewitt","tags":["blessed","compose","create","paint","questions","tears","write"],"id":14219,"author_id":"Duane+Hewitt"},{"text":"A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase 'I love you,' it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz.","author":"James Lee Schmidt","tags":["abstract","art","artist","books","edit","editor","humor","i-love-you","instagram","instagram","instaquote","james-joyce","life","literature","love","paint","painting","picture","relationships","surreal","ulysses","visual","write","writer","writing"],"id":24532,"author_id":"James+Lee+Schmidt"},{"text":"As paint needs a canvass for its beauty to show, stars need darkness for their splendor to shine.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["adversity","beauty","challenges","dark","darkness","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","light","light","obstacles","overcome","overcomer","overcoming-adversity","overcoming-challenges","overcoming-fear","overcoming-obstacles","overcoming","paint","shine","shine-your-light","shinning","star","stars","trouble"],"id":25474,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.","author":"Kiera Cass","tags":["art","dad","kiera-cass","love","melody","paint","parent","picture","song","the-one","the-selection","words"],"id":28131,"author_id":"Kiera+Cass"},{"text":"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.","author":"Henri Matisse","tags":["difference","paint","between "],"id":32372,"author_id":"Henri+Matisse"},{"text":"I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.","author":"David Hockney","tags":["paint","anything","pictures "],"id":32584,"author_id":"David+Hockney"},{"text":"How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?","author":"Maria Montessori","tags":["colors","paint","see "],"id":34920,"author_id":"Maria+Montessori"},{"text":"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.","author":"Pierre Bonnard","tags":["paint","pleasure","express "],"id":35045,"author_id":"Pierre+Bonnard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":115,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}