Quotes of: Painting Keyword

How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself

The Wise Man's Fear

She made the ground a canvas and transformed the dusty barren land into a beautiful painting ever

With You

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

Balthus

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

Frank Stella

Paint everything with blood than you know it is true. Because all colours are but mirrors to the insides an illusion to life itself.

Jeremy Limn

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

Naomi Watts

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

Orhan Pamuk

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

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

Peter Greenaway

At school I was easily misled, but that's childhood. I remember I used to shoplift tins of Airfix paint and football badges.

Philip Glenister

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Philip Guston

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

P. J. Harvey

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Pablo Picasso

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.

Richard Donner

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

Robert Irwin

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

Tamara Feldman

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

Terrence Howard

I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting or sculpture; it was everything mixed together.

Thomas McDonell