Quotes of: Painting Keyword

Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

Joss Whedon

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

Lucian Freud

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

Lucian Freud

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

Mark Akenside

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

Mohsin Hamid

Be creative! Write, sing, dance, paint, whatever you do, make something for your Maker!

Marja Meijers

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

Michelle Shocked

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

Mao Zedong

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

Nate Lowman

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Abraham Maslow

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

Edvard Munch

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

Will Cotton

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

LeRoy Neiman

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

Georgia O'Keeffe

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

Toni Morrison

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

Kevin McCloud

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

Sara Blakely

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Tony Snow

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

Sylvester Stallone

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.

Debbie Allen

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

Tony Curtis