131 Painted Quotes for You to Enjoy

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys. Barbara Olson

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I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. Bill Griffith

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I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys. Bruce Willis

Try New Things Action Corner Out Kind Run Bad More New Genre Itself Times Get Just Action Film Painted Fun Many Film Things Copied Basically Buys

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new. Carly Simon

You Old Something Through Take Part Feel New Like Know Underneath Coming Been Discover Off Canvas Paint Painted

One summer, when I was elementary-school age, my neighbors and I built guitars and keyboards out of scrap wood, painted them in bright colors, and formed the cover band Lil' 'D' Duran Duran. We didn't make our own noise or even pretend to play our fake instruments. Carrie Brownstein

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If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century. Catherine Martin

History You Old Will Long Big Tried See Long Island Throughout Houses Island Always Go Link Families Wallpaper Established Which Notable Chinese Century Painted

Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary on the work, and as someone who held the sculpture in high esteem and who largely considered ballet to be the high-minded pursuit of privileged young girls, I was struck by what I would learn. Cathy Marie Buchanan

Work Girl Young Dancer Considered Television High Would Someone Struck Pursuit Documentary Edgar Learn Ballet Came Privileged Famous Esteem Young Girls Little Aged Held Sculpture Who Painted Largely Served Fourteen Muse

I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the time, but looking back, I realize that my debut into Monaco society should have been better executed! Charlene, Princess of Monaco

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I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I basically am the only musician in my family. My aunt plays a little piano, but that's about it. My dad's mother painted and was actually good at it. I do not come from a long line of musicians, though. Coy Bowles

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer. Dennis Hopper

Time Director Old Writer Years Five Going Painted Painter Actor

It's hard sometimes, especially with a book like 'Scorch Trials,' to truly adapt to the way the book is because so many of the scenes that take place in the book are really graphed and painted for the imagination. Trying to bring that to life is a really big task. Dexter Darden

I have a lot of Burberry items at home, including one dress that I loved so much that I had my living room painted to match because the color was so flattering. Dita Von Teese

Home Living Dress Color Had Because Match Lot Items Loved Flattering Room Much Painted Including Living Room

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. Donna Tartt

Rain Writing Water Drop Way Detail Color Almost Leaf Concentrating Am Concrete Off Wet Rolls After Room Painted Wholly

I have always been a big rock fan and remember dressing up as Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose for my high school Halloween disco when I was 17. My teacher painted tattoos on, and I wore a small leather waistcoat and not much else. Drew McIntyre

Teacher Remember School Halloween Big Rose Else High Guns High School Dressing Small Disco Rock Always Leather Been Up Tattoos Fan Wore Much Roses Painted

When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. 'The Social Network' painted this picture that we were partying all the time, when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook's first year. Dustin Moskovitz

I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies. Edward Zwick

Myself Big Corner Bit David Doing Movies Might Painted Serious

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him. Ellen DeGeneres

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I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a certain point, I decided I didn't want an edge between two colors, I wanted color differences in literal space. Ellsworth Kelly

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I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow. Ellsworth Kelly

Edge Somehow Colors Between Felt Always Depiction Painted Two

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. Erica Jong

Mother Living Too Aunt Grandfather Worked Painted Portraits

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot. Ernst Haas

Beauty Those Moods Paris Most Wanted Shot Connect Painted Paints

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