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When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?' Roy Lichtenstein
Painting Would Cartoon Question Ironically Modern Want Anyone Them Used Why Images Raise
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it. Roy Lichtenstein
Before Painting Paper Collage Drawing Would Something Put Fairly Sure Printed Committed Wanted Dots Then Worked Really Certain Certain Things Painted Things
I've never done an anguished painting. Roy Lichtenstein
Painting Anguished Never Done
I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like. Roy Lichtenstein
Mind Will Painting Guess Drawing Kind Color Colors Like Look Around Very Size Really Hard
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity. Roy Lichtenstein
You Strange People Sometimes Painting Thinking Thirty Thirty-Five Our Out Has-Been Kind Some Know Look How Were Oddity Been Years Normal Yes Five Forget Anything Which Next Now Expressionist Started
Everything from the music to our clothes was truly authentic. Lisa and I were in my basement spray painting our overalls. Rozonda Thomas
Music Clothes Painting Our Everything Overalls Spray Were Truly Authentic Basement
Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to. Ruby Rose
Art Fashion Feelings Painting Drawing Drawn Musician Someone Something Also Because Artist Essentially Anything Regards Really Who Expresses
An artist's initial broad stroke is always most impactful, and obsessively adding layer upon layer of paint to fill in details often diminishes the painting's aura. When an aura is lost, it is impossible to get back. Ryuichi Sakamoto
Impossible Lost Painting Adding Back Broad Diminishes Stroke Details Layer Most Always Aura Get Artist Often Paint Initial Fill
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture. Sam Taylor-Johnson
Art College Painting More Feel Towards Like Became Always Art College Than Artist Interest Sculpture Film Default
As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater. Sarah Gavron
Art Painting Drama Teenager Drawing Some Did Loved Theater Interested Really Acting
Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something. Saul Leiter
Photography Painting Finding About Something Making Different Things
I feel like I've done Pete Hornberger, and that is a painting I have signed, and I don't need to play that character anymore. So I'll get offers for panicky, pathetic guys, and while it's a great compliment to get them, I feel like I don't need to play that again. Scott Adsit
Great Character Painting Signed Compliment Guys Feel Like Offers Get Pathetic Done Anymore While Again Them Play Need
At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing - and that would have been my ideal life, to be an artist and be paid for it, to be able to create stuff. I realized it was difficult, but I don't know if I had the application for it. Sean Bean
Life Music Art College Painting Difficult Drawing Would Able Had Ideal Stuff Know Been Art College Artist Realized Then Create Paid Application Started
Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad. Sean Scully
Sad Painting Extremely Finish Emotional Profoundly
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? Sergei Eisenstein
Cinema Language Painting Follow Objects Rather Arise Combination New Ideas Concepts Concrete Methodology Than Which Theater Forms Should Wholly Now Why Two
Language is much closer to film than painting is. Sergei Eisenstein
Language Painting Than Closer Much Film
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. Shailene Woodley
Art Me Painting About Blank Blank Canvas Doing Being Canvas Acting Your Film Thing Film Set Set
The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details. Shaun Tan
Truth World Painting Adds Those Detail Details Runs Something Imperfection Alongside Also Makes Real False Lots Unexpected Fiction The Real World Real World Convincing Incidental Element
Illustrating is more about communicating specific ideas to a reader. Painting is more like pure science, more about the act of painting. Shaun Tan
Science Pure Painting About More Like Ideas Reader Communicating Act Specific Illustrating
You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever. Shooter Jennings
Art You Painting Drawing Kinds Piano Stuff Know Drums Forever Younger Played
We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold. Simon McBurney
Walls Clothes Painting Cold Saw Say Ancestors Drawings Wear Brothers Drew Feel Like Remote Than Same Closer Egyptian Essentially Artists Against Us Mural
Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me. Siri Hustvedt
Time Me First Painting Saw Emotional Never First Time Years Years Ago Left Century Works Whose Deeply
I was always interested in the ocean and also in art. I had to figure out how to put the two together, but painting fish sounded boring. Stephen Hillenburg
Art Together Ocean Painting Out Boring Had Put Also Always How Fish Interested Figure Two
Painting is just a hobby. I really don't think of it much more than that. But writing music and writing words... my life would feel as if it had a big hole if I took those away. Stephen Hough
Life Music Writing Words My Life Big Painting Think Took Those Would More Had Feel Than Just Hobby Hole Much Really Away
The piano is an instrument that can easily sound overly thick, and I love to think that I can work with textures - particularly the inner textures inside the melody or the bass line. There is an analogy there with painting; I love paintings where you see colour underneath the colour and, underneath that, more texture and shape. Stephen Hough
Work Love You Painting Think Bass Analogy Melody Easily Inside See More Piano Shape Colour Particularly Instrument Underneath Sound Overly Line Texture Textures Where Paintings Thick Inner
We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion. Stephen J. Dubner
Good Silence Seriously Father Parents Painting Living Took Our Our Father Minutes Both Crucifixion Never Missed Mass Catholicism Friday Very Front Taught Afternoon Room Good Friday Living Room Gathered
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