Painting Quotes

I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good things. Alia Shawkat
Love Hope Good Day You Good Things Dog Fall Painting One Day More Know Maybe Travelling Things
It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more. Alice Cooper
Music Painting Frank More Got Permission Cover Were Fit Salvador Salvador Dali Did Going Much Really Use Originally Found Dali
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. Alice Duer Miller
Beautiful Truth Good Me Important Painting Out Only Pictures Wanted Burst Forth Help Paint Even
At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost. Alice Walker
Art Writing Painting Everybody Dancers Dancing Lawrence Writers Nobody Makeup Were Any Going Wore Realized Sarah Painters
Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again. Alison Mosshart
Action Painting Thinking Almost Like Sport Read Diary Want Again Might Really Paintings Thing
If I'm at a party, and there are lots of people running around, you'll most likely find me on the floor, painting... I want to be at the party, but I want to do something. I'm just not very idle at all. Alison Mosshart
Me You People Party Painting Running Find Something Most Likely Around Idle Lots Very Just Want Floor
My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress. Allegra Versace
Home Mom Me School Painting Kindergarten Dress Silk Dressed Finger Because Go Sent Elementary Elementary School
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace. Amor Towles
Music Change Architecture Painting Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Evolving Pretty Seems Observable Retrospect Industry Were Arts Pace Century Novel
Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype. Amy Sherald
Painting Complete Once See Something More Longer Model Bigger Themselves Paintings Lives Symbolic
When I'm painting and in the zone, it's difficult for me to stop. It can take me half a day to get into that space, and once I do, I only talk to a certain few people who won't disrupt it. Home to sleep and back at it, nothing else outside of getting food. Everything else is an annoyance getting in my way. Amy Sherald
Food Day Home Me People Space Half Few Nothing Painting Difficult Else Back Everything Once Everything Else Way Only Take Outside Annoyance Talk Get Few People Getting Stop Certain Who Disrupt Zone Sleep
Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way. Amy Sherald
Truth Art Food Soul Painting Way Someone Fact Dead Because Said Just Just Because Mean
The substance of painting is light. Andre Derain
Light Painting Substance
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself. Andre Malraux
Made Seen Become Painting Universe Crucial Had Himself Private Discovery Artist Order Created
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. Andrew Wyeth
Age First Painting Macbeth Steadily Had New Began York New York Gallery Show
I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me. Andrew Wyeth
Me You Sex Somebody Painting Secretive Would Would-Be Never Like Personal Anybody Watch Watching
I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it. Ani DiFranco
Music Art People Live Painting Dancing About Something Powerful Attracted Lot Art Form Art Forms Close Different Form Hold Forms Why
I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it. Ann Leckie
Attitude Music Art You Culture People Rest Whatever Painting Think Our Some Magical Inspired Toward Like Making Lot Times Artists Us Production Separates Special Thing
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. Antoni Tapies
Art Great World Losing Great Deal Secular Sense Painting Think Our Our World Religious More More And More Return Deal Loss Modern Done Getting Modern Art Which Eternal Customs Meaning Origins Images Damage
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery. Antonio Damasio
Joy Pure Ocean Painting Promise Pure Joy Composition Small Perhaps Look Ready Discovery Depart Center Holds
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. Antony Sher
People Writing Painting Drawing Only Obviously Well Acting
Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am O.C.D. and an extreme multitasker, I find it hard to get lazy. I love Sundays for painting because it's quieter; the gallery is closed, and there are no interruptions. April Gornik
Love Myself Day Sunday Closed Painting Extreme One Day Sundays Easy Find Lay Take Lazy Reminding Because Around Am Quieter Get Gallery Should Hard Keep Interruptions
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot. Arne Glimcher
Change Sometimes AI Painting Society Carefully Furniture Ancient Rapid Pot Absurd Conceptual Arrangements Artist Chinese Produced Useless Coca-Cola Illustrate
Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Can he, indeed? ... Can you, sir? Nay, believe me, you are either an archangel or a very bourgeois gentleman indeed if you admit to having spoken English prose all your life without knowing it. Arthur Quiller-Couch
Life Art Me You Will Gentleman Painting Believe Indeed Tell All Your Life Admit Having Write He Prose Spoken Bourgeois Knowing Well Without Very Sir Oh Whereas Anyone Either Your Special English Nay
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. Balthus
Work Great Struggle Experience Criticism Painting Liberation Feel Like Also Self-Examination Translating Consciousness
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. Balthus
Language Painting Say About Know Another Replaced Cannot Which Really Paint
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. Balthus
Painting Virtually Evidence Possesses Only Disappeared Look Left Craft Anyone Century Really Who Painters Hardly
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