Painting Quotes - Page 40

• I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.

  Stanley Spencer

  Men, Wish, Rats

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• Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

  Robertson Davies

  Photography, Oil, Fiction

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• All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded yet. The worst painting cant hurt you, but a bad driver can kill you, a bad judge can send you to the chair, a bad politician can ruin an entire country, That is why even a bad painting is sacred.

  Man Ray

  Country, Hurt, People

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• What has reason to do with the art of painting?

  William Blake

  Art, Reason

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• I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Different, Kind, Different Kinds

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• I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.

  Dylan McDermott

  Heart, Character, Past

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• I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

  John Lennon

  Mistake, Sound, Revolution

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Believe, Creative, Acting

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• When I get a script and do my work, and then show up on set and work, it's the same zone that I'm in when I'm in front of a canvas, or when I'm writing a story about one of my paintings, or when I'm playing music. Whatever I'm doing at any given time, it's the same exact zone.

  Michael Marisi Ornstein

  Writing, Playing Music, Stories

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• I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.

  Michael Marisi Ornstein

  Song, Writing, Order

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• If I'm feeling something, I know if it's a song, or if it's a little story that I'm going to write, or if it's a painting or play. I might sit down and write a play.

  Michael Marisi Ornstein

  Song, Writing, Play

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• The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able to surprise myself every day, I can surprise you as well. If I enjoy someone's work and they offer me their project, I do it. So what's the point of the supposed creativity? If Mona Lisa could be made by anyone, then it wouldn't have been the most beautiful painting in the world. The knowledge that you can fail can make you come first.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Beautiful, Creativity, People

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• When an artist wants to paint a painting, they have all those things in their head that they want to portray on a canvas. It's the same thing when I'm pitching. I have all these thoughts going through my head about how I want to pitch: which pitch I want to throw here, and why do I want to throw it?

  Justin Verlander

  Artist, Want, Pitching

  "Q&A: David Ortiz and Justin Verlander". Interview with David Laurila, www.fangraphs.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Brother, Ambition, Becoming

  "In With the New" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2014.

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• It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Art, Doe, Crafts

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.132, Vintage

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• Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Breathing, Silence

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “To Music”

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• I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Loneliness, Believe, Sadness

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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

  Teacher, Party, School

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• Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

  Georges Braque

  Writing, Illusion, Describing

  Georges Braque (1971). “Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955”, Dover Pubns

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• Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate, gentle, and feminine, until Angels are shown as androgynous or even distinctly female.

  David Connolly

  Angel, Years, Next

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• The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.

  Squeak Carnwath

  World, Information, Source

  Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

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• Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.

  Anthony Caro

  Art, Taken, Next

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• I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Thinking, Roots

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• A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.

  John Updike

  Mean, Artist, Light

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.667, Random House

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• If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.

  Bill Gates

  Airplane, Sunset, Presidential

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