131 Painted Quotes for You to Enjoy

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. Neil Simon

Risks Took Would No-One Sistine Painted Ever Floor Chance

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. Mark Twain

Communication Words Fire Only Look Itself Painted

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Oscar Wilde

Feeling Every Sitter Artist Painted Portrait

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Ambrose Bierce

Art Picture Sun Photograph Instruction Without Painted

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. Edvard Munch

Memories Simplicity Picture Nothing Painting Took Adding Eye Details See Followed Only Emptiness Impressions Did Painted Moments Paintings Hence

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. Jimi Hendrix

Science Key Rest Imagination Lyrics Science Fiction Fiction Little Painted

On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it. Christopher Lee

Family Side Back Some Pottery Count Name Trace Cousin Came Italian Years Famous Rome Across Who Painted Original

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. Henri Matisse

Creative First Before Nothing Rose Difficult More He Because Were Truly Than Forget Roses Paint Painted Painter Ever

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. Frida Kahlo

Dreams Reality Thought Own My Own Never Surrealist Painted

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up. Jennifer Aniston

Myself Me Sex Sex Symbol See Magazine Magazine Cover Someone Know Look Cover Up Done Means Painted Symbol

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy. Billy Hughes

Justice Mercy Having Want Painted Portrait

Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow. Gary Zukav

Winter Experience Stillness Wind Awareness Cold Trees Beneath Summer Lies Miracle Potential Blankets Unto Coming Domain Itself Green Snow Being Manifestation Canvas Bare Painted Large Each Growing

It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable. Issa Rae

Me Woman Culture People Try Black Picture Down Other Unacceptable One Thing Threaten Outside Bleak Stereotypical Because Audacity How Am Question Race Pop Pop Culture Ethnicity Painted Card Thing

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now. Jimmy Carter

Good Long Picture Few Painting Too Bit Pretty Nest More Fact Taken Wrote Gotten Cover Years In Fact Interest Little Little Bit Painted Popular Paintings Novel Now Last Last Few Years

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist. John Grant

Saying Me People World Somebody Pessimist Live Think Way Must Sees Fact Glass Like Always Up Optimist Eternal Who Painted Showing Showing Up Shows Keep

A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty driven by hard work and love working with teams. What people discount is, I grew up in a very small blue-collar town in Massachusetts and have basically scrapped my way career wise. Tim Armstrong

Work Love Hard Work Me Wise People Picture Way Super Pretty Guy Small Driven Town Massachusetts Discount Affable Sales Up Very Gets Blue-Collar Grew Working Hard Painted Teams Actuality Basically Career

When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, 'This is my vision.' Agnes Martin

Vision Mind Thought Made First Satisfied Thinking Innocence Trees Still Came Happened Grid Then Painted

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors. Alexandra Stoddard

Myself Garden Girl Think Watering Colors Loved Little Little Girl Painted

Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen. Alice Morse Earle

Few Colored New New England Houses Within Without Were Any Lists Either England Workmen Painted Painters Appear Early

Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom. Allan Gurganus

Great Me Broken Envy Three Beauty Living Sets Harp Mine Strings Claim Though Stealing Study Opened New Beautifully Bedroom Quarter Were Covered Refinement German Goddesses Manhattan Coat Painted Whole Things Imagine Gather

Compared to overdeveloped islands like Nassau, Bimini has kept its original charm. Walk the streets to see colorfully painted houses, funky shops, and trade greetings with friendly Biminites. Amanda Hearst

Walk See Charm Like Houses Trade Islands Friendly Shops Painted Original Compared Streets Kept Funky

When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel. Amor Towles

Time Me Memory First Gentleman Lobby Later Giant Visit Visited Restaurant Prompted Some Simply Tourist Glass Hotel Over Moscow First Time Years Off Historic Ceiling Curious Short Wandered Grand Painted Set

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself. August Wilson

Work Myself People Think Say Write Self Picasso He Himself Audience Always Same Artist Which Painted Satisfy

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