621 Painting Quotes for You to Enjoy

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out. David Lynch

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As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them. David Lynch

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You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum. David Lynch

Time You Cinema Half Year Painting Booked Though Minimum Some Take Idea Make Go Get Difference Might Paintings Even

I'm just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City, Kansas. And I always thought that acting was art, writing was art, music was art, painting was art, and I've tried to keep that cultural vibe to my life. Dennis Hopper

Life Music Art Writing Thought My Life Farm Painting Tried City Dodge Boy Always Cultural Vibe Just Kansas Acting Keep

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues. Dennis Prager

Problem Vile Painting Argue Issues However Left Stops Moment Right

There are plenty of millionaires who would pay millions to hang a Van Gogh painting on the wall, but hardly one that would have ever had the crazy nut over for dinner. I feel like the big companies are like that with musicians. They'll say, 'We love music! It's all about the music!' - but if a musician shows up at the door, they call security. Derek Sivers

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In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't. Derek Walcott

You Painting Directly Through Opinion Go Process Either Speaks Works

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting. Derek Walcott

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Art is a beautiful world to get into. Once you are there, it is very difficult to get out of it. Like, once you start painting, you don't want to leave your brush and colours. Dimple Kapadia

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I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life. Diora Baird

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Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination. Dito Montiel

If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of 'Vincent', I thought of his picture 'Starry Night.' It was a beautiful road-map for a song. I used a lot of imagery from that painting. Don McLean

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I'm drawn to silhouettes because of their emblematic rather than their illustrational quality. I see them as shapes, allowing an image to become an abstraction and for pure painting to take place. Donald Baechler

Quality Pure Become Painting Drawn See Rather Take Shapes Allowing Abstraction Because Than Place Them Image

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years. Donald Judd

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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. Edvard Munch

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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. Edward Hopper

Nature Painting Aim Intimate Possible Exact Most Always Been Impression

Well, I have a very simple method of painting. Edward Hopper

Simple Painting Well Method Very

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did. Edward Ruscha

Art Me Inspire Country Painting Guess Further Classes Seeing Knew Liked Did Artist Going Wanted Realize Barely Explore Fun

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts. Elizabeth Peyton

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time. Ellar Coltrane

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My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint. Ellie Kemper

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I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light. Ellsworth Kelly

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