Quotes of: Painting Keyword

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Henry Flynt

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

Marguerite Duras

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Taylor Swift

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Frank Auerbach

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Antonin Artaud

The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.

Antonin Carême

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

Alice Lowe

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

Antony Sher

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

Blake Anderson

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Brandon Boyd

The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.

Love

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

Viggo Mortensen

Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

Yayoi Kusama

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Chuck Close

-Paint- My girlfriend is so besotted that she can't take her eyes off me. After we've turned out the light she puts on her night-vision goggles, and watched me as I sleep. Quite often I am woken by her sighing and involuntary yelps of happiness. This...

Anthropology

The next prisoner looks twelve. He says he's sixteen. He knows it is shameful to fight for the FNLA, but they told him that if he went to the front they would send him to school afterward. He wants to finish school because he wants to paint. if he co...

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Jimmy: Hey, Shakespeare! How's it going? Joe Turner: Terrific. I'm building up a great collection of rejection slips. Jimmy: [as he prepares Turner's lunch order] Yeah, I know the feeling. I always wanted to be Escoffier. Joe Turner: Well, maybe it's...

Three Days of the Condor

In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.

The Creation of Eve

Time can only rob us of the things we can touch; it can't rob us of the things we feel.

Chips of Red Paint

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.

City of Lost Souls