Painting Quotes - Page 32

• I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Oil, Painter, Studios

  Source: www.motherjones.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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• Does it bother me that some people are burning their own System CDs and taking money out of my pocket? Not really. This has always been about putting the best possible version of the song in the fans hands. It was like selling an artist's painting before he had finished it.

  Daron Malakian

  Song, Artist, Hands

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• If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

  Pablo Picasso

  Flower, Stuck, Draws

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• When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

  Faith Ringgold

  Quilts, Able, Accepting

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• The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

  John Hurt

  Jobs, Self, Discipline

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• If you can really accept the fact that every time you think a thought and every time you speak a word you are literally painting your future or making your dinner - whatever you want to call it - you are creating ... and you are creating your own life.

  Louise Hay

  Thinking, Creating, Facts

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• I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Editing, Years

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• The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle.

  Lucian Freud

  Miracle, Looks, Attention

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• My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

  Rene Magritte

  Mean, Mystery, Evoke

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• I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.

  Joan Miro

  Bird, Firsts, Form

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• Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.

  Fred Williams

  Differences

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• Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

  Joan Miro

  Giving, Imagination, World

  "Calder/Miró". Book by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Oliver Wick (p. 82, note 24), 2004.

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• Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"

  Rob Long

  Pieces, Pollock, Crap

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• It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

  Edvard Munch

  Holes, Ten

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• As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.

  Amrita Sher-Gil

  Feet, Technique, Soil

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• As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Growing Up, Children, Lying

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• The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

  Bernard Ingham

  Media, Oil, Looks

  Bernard Ingham (1992). “Kill the messenger”, Burns & Oates

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• A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

  Miles Davis

  Music Is

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• The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

  Edgar Degas

  Shining, Pimp, Expenses

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• Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

  Claude Monet

  Gardening

  Claude Monet (2007). “Monet: a visit to Giverny”

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• The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.

  Alan Weisman

  Real, Years, Civilization

  Source: www.today.com

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• If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting and dip that in a bucket of blood, and then just flick your wrist. You'll get this great speckled splash of blood, and it will cost you nothing.

  Bruce Campbell

  Blood, House, Buckets

  "Ash vs Evil Dead": Bruce Campbell Talks Blood, Sidekicks, and Hating Ash’s Car". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2015.

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• Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Fun, Live Life, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.

  James D'arcy

  Real, War, Reading

  "‘Spotlight’s Brian d’Arcy James On Journalism Versus Acting & Playing A Nerd – Q&A". Interview with Jeremy Gerard, deadline.com. November 3, 2015.

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