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My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby. Luanne Rice

Me Progress Mother Painting Our Typing Kitchen Had Put Like Smelled House Wrote She Always Bed Sound Sisters Oil After Paint Painted Lullaby Her Night

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. Lucian Freud

Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright. Lydia Lunch

I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed. Maeve Binchy

People Wonderful Understanding Young Older Side Despise Corollary Everything Fuss Bad More Colours Am Were Very Than Get Either Much Used Who Painted Bright

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in. Majel Barrett

Funny You Strange Amazing First Situation Trek Everything Find Some Gene Costumes Through Colours He Put Stuff Least Go Years Left Same Going Just Them Painted Series Star Star Trek Actor Two

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Mark Akenside

Trifles Seeks Joys Toys Fantastic Painted Eagerly Imaginary

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. Mark Rothko

Living Intimate Scale Distortion Would Would-Be Rather Since Pictures Institutional Opposite Been Normal Than Intense Meaning Decorative Painted

The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight. Martin Filler

Dignity Rare Building Lobby Chrysler Entire Faced Magnificent Delight Invested Leads Tower Ceiling Exotic Itself Office Woods Fanciful Patterns Ceremony Decorative Painted Marbles Route Street Elevator Image

Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle. Mike McCready

Life Song Darkness Beauty Painted Chris Seattle

This picture has been painted of me. It's not right. I am 100% clean. Mo Farah

Me Picture Has-Been Clean Am Been Painted Right

When the Left agitates over government policies, it's considered righteous anger. When the Right - and much of the center - agitate, it's painted as the rantings of the criminally and violently insane. Monica Crowley

Government Anger Considered Righteous Insane Over Policies Government Policies Left Center Much Agitate Painted Right Violently

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite. Norman Rockwell

Life Long Think Folks Some Around Lincoln Been Quite Painted

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out. Norman Rockwell

Great Face Mouth Guess Sun Out About Facial Had He Like Liked Most Smiled Talked Came Mobile Very Just Eisenhower Used Painted Actor Ever Expressive Wide Muscles

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. Pablo Picasso

New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, 'I miss the old New York.' But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it's painted over. Paloma Elsesser

Me Natural People Old Independence Own Energy Think Though Embodies Struck My Own Idea Miss Over New Like Terms Lot Authentic Authenticity York Lacks New York Influenced Really Painted Even Core

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine. Philip Johnson

I got agitated at the idea that racism is a Southern thing. Did you hear about the cross-burning out here? A black family moved into an upper-middle-class Los Angeles suburb and found a cross burning on their lawn. Swastikas are being painted on synagogues. I'm moving to France. I don't think this 'kinder, gentler nation' bit is working too well. Pruitt Taylor Vince

Family You Racism Black Nation Think Too France Bit Out Out Here Kinder Black Family Angeles About Cross Lawn Idea Well Got Los Los Angeles Hear Southern Did Moved Being Burning Suburb Moving Working Painted Found Thing Here

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. Rainn Wilson

Science Parents Big Living Had Wrote Science Fiction Oil Fiction Bohemian Painted Paintings Dad Novels Seattle Mural Last

My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why. Ralph Lauren

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. Regina Spektor

Beautiful Me Song Think Related Those Characters More Writers Songwriters Adventures Odyssey Fiction Fiction Writers Story Painted Travels

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes. Richard C. Armitage

Strokes He Arm Like Conductor Quite Straight Used Painted Bold

Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who painted them, what they mean. Richard Flanagan

Age Old Fluid Older Everything About Uncertain More Perhaps Years Controversial Mean Them Who Painted Recent

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