623 Painting Quotes for You to Enjoy

It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music. Kim Gordon

Music Art Made Ideology Painting Teenage Easier Sexy Hot Obsession Over Equivalent Get Hard

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery. Kit Williams

Dog Painting Hoop Feature Take Place Rabbit

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us. Kit Williams

Character Book Key Painting Sections Divided Through Leads Tale Fairy Fairy Tale Five Represents Which Us Now Actually Here Muse

As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me. Lance Henriksen

Great Me Painting Kid Out Oatmeal Would See Spirit Great Spirit Bowls Real Cupboard Frightened Get Appeal

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color. Larry Poons

People Painting Respond Color Who

I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project. Laura Mennell

Art Theatre School Painting Lunch Drama Type Project Drawing High Favourite Geek Some High School Finishing Piano Major Became Always Up Child Arts Interested Room Acting Rehearsing

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. Lee Hall

You Gardening Theatre Plant Finished Painting Living Think Ways Constantly More Tend Writer Part Like Wall Done Rewarding Realise Then Used Many Now Play Thing

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued. Lee Krasner

War You Army People Painting Otherwise Unless Were Continue Affected Very Just Stopped Mean Then Paint

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive. Leon Battista Alberti

Painting Alive Seem Divine Almost Contains Dead Force Makes Which

Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support. Leon Black

Today Technology Science Innovation World Internet Important Fighting Painting Think Telecom Rightfully Poetry Share Support Terms Equally Diseases Where

I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking. Lesley Manville

Work Big Realistic Painting Thinking Madame Like Particularly Him Without Big Fan His Being Literal Fan Anything Really Imagine Sofa

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done. Lindsey Buckingham

Morning Happy Painting Others Would Would-Be See Some Ten Days Hours Couple Because Till Leave Doing Were Done Waltz Being Being Done Then Thing Night

I have an amazing wife and three beautiful children, and that certainly makes you less obsessive about your art as a musician - which I've always felt was more like painting than anything. Lindsey Buckingham

In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world. Lisa Randall

The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life. Louis MacNeice

Life Music Day Together Every Day Words Poet Painting Every Other Everyone Dancing Something Poetry Exception Puts Without Practise Does His Arts Which Even Specialist Differs

I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead. Louis Theroux

Painting Instead Schools Always Teach Enjoyed Zimbabwe

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

Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me. Lynn Shelton

Music Me Before Painting Incredible Out Kind Photographs Classes About Adolescence Something Voice Had Taking Like Making Just Exploding Then Really Acting Acting Classes Ground Creatively

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude. Marcel Duchamp

Attitude Painting Side Extreme Physical Protest Metaphysical Against

In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase. Marcel Duchamp

Painting Our Static Abstraction Knowing Equally Within Without Real Articulated Person Real Person Movement Wanted Staircase Create Deduction Descending Image

'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end. Marcel Duchamp

All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been done, or at least hadn't been talked about very much. Marcel Duchamp

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