Painting A Picture Quotes

• Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

  Winston Churchill

  Fighting, Battle, Trying

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Art, Pain

  "The Class of '61" (speech), Cambridge, Mass., 28 June 1911

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• I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.

  Etty Hillesum

  Believe, Creativity, Writing

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.318, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

  Wale

  Artist, Emotional, Painting

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• I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

  Willem de Kooning

  Thinking, Two, Landscape

  "Julian T Borlaski’s Gowanus Atropolis" by Nicolle Elizabeth, believermag.com. February 1, 2012.

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• The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you're describing, when you're setting the scene and everything. It's like you're painting a picture, so details are very important. Also, the music gotta be right. The music can really set the tone for the story and let you know what the story is gonna be about, but definitely, it's the vibe in the place where you at and the detail.

  Big Boi

  Important, Elements, Littles

  "Big Boi Welcomes Us to the World of Luscious Left Foot". Interview with Dave Maher, pitchfork.com. August 4, 2008.

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• I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

  Lucian Freud

  Thinking, Half, Painting

  Interview with Martin Gayford, Independent on Sunday, May 26, 2002.

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• There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Song, Writing

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• Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!

  Bill Bonner

  Art, Real, Careers

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• Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.

  Shelley Winters

  Acting, Gone, Tissues

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• I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.

  Arnold Friberg

  Art, Confused, Ambition

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• You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer's head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky.

  Bill Whittle

  Art, Lying, Dark

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• Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind.

  Charlie Day

  Jobs, Color, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation
  for greater living and greater relationships.

  Mary Morrissey

  Mind, Foundation, Want

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• Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

  Phil Collins

  Littles, Lasts, Months

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

  Horace Walpole

  Kings, Son, News

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• Much-Afraid, don't ever allow yourself to begin trying to picture what it will be like. Believe me, when you get to the place which you dread you will find that they are as different as possible from what you have imagined, just as was the case when you were actually ascending the precipice. I must warn you that I see your enemies lurking among the trees ahead, and if you ever let Craven Fear begin painting a picture on the screen of your imagination, you will walk with fear and trembling and agony, where no fear is.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Believe, Agony, Imagination

  Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.192, Destiny Image Publishers

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• A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Writing, Chinese Revolution

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Judging, Listening

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• Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?

  Beatrix Farrand

  Garden, Painting, Should

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• A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

  Gordon Willis

  Moving, Dark, Thinking

  "Remembering Gordon Willis, ASC" by Jon Fauer, www.fdtimes.com. May 20, 2014.

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• The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

  Daniel B. Shapiro

  Reality, Stories, Painting

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• Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
  With sudden passion languishing,
  Teaching barren moors to smile,
  Painting pictures mile on mile,
  Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths
  Whence a smokeless incense breathes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Daughter, Spring, Teaching

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.163

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• An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

  John Singer Sargent

  Artist, Men, Should Have

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• ... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

  Winston Churchill

  Fighting, Battle, Trying

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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