Quotes of: Painting Keyword

I went through an obsession with eyebrows. I used to paint my eyebrows really, really strong. I look back now, and some were a little bit strong.

Tyra Banks

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

Tony Curtis

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it.

Tom Hiddleston

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

Tom Robbins

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

Kia Carrington-Russell

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

Kazimir Malevich

Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.

Kazimir Malevich

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.

Lucian Freud

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

Larry Wall

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

Marion Bartoli

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

Morris Graves

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

Mary Leakey

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

Madeleine L'Engle

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

Max Nordau

They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.

Rosamunde Pilcher

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Robert Rauschenberg

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

Robert Rauschenberg

You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.

Shannon L. Alder

You can't be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life's masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon.

Shannon L. Alder

With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

Samuel Barnett

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

Sherrod Brown