Oil Painting Quotes - Page 2

• Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.

  Tina Fey

  Writing, Oil, Painting

  "The Real Tina Fey". Interview with A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2010.

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• When I am recording on my own, it's like an oil painting: I can put that on top of that and build up layers. But with the band, it turned out more watercolor: you're leaving white bits of paper exposed, so that nothing is too overworked.

  Conor O'Brien

  White, Leaving, Band

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because it's out there in the environment where the harassment actually happens. So it's a lot more powerful than an oil painting that's stuck in a gallery or under my bed or in my studio where only a couple of eyes are going to see it, as opposed to it being in an environment where it could possibly effect a change.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Couple, Powerful, Eye

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.

  John Berger

  Men, Average, Oil

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