Quotes of: Painting Keyword

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

Chico Hamilton

You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.

Edie Sedgwick

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Max Beckmann

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

Michael Shermer

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

Paulo Coelho

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert Fulghum

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

Nelson Goodman

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

Edi Rama

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

Lily Cole

When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.

Eddie Redmayne

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

Edward Ruscha

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

Fred Durst

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Gustave Courbet

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

Caspar David Friedrich

The most beautiful painting holds by a hard nail. (La plus belle peinture - Tient par un clou dur.)

Charles de Leusse

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Claude Monet

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Chester W. Nimitz

The reason we call ships "she" is that it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Chester W. Nimitz

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

Christopher Plummer

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

Callum Keith Rennie