Quotes of: Painting Keyword

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

Hasan M. Elahi

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

Jeff Koons

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

Kate Walsh

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

Lucian Freud

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.

Mary Karr

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

Takeshi Kitano

There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.

Will Cotton

For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery that brings good fathers and sons into the world and lets a mothe...

My Name Is Asher Lev

So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. "This is the school, and this is the playground, and these are my friends." He stared at the paintings for a long time and then shook his head in discouragement. "In my min...

The Successful Novelist: A Lifetime of Lessons about Writing and Publishing

Cordelia loved his explanations. She loved knowing words that belonged to things she'd never seen, even to things you couldn't see at all. She remembered those words carefully. "Magic," George had said, "is something unnatural, something that doesn't...

Three Bags Full

I don't want these. They're mud and they've got no color. Or at least the color is different from what I'm used to. Take any American city, in autumn, or in winter, when the light makes the colors dance and flow, and look at it from a distant hill or...

Winter's Tale

Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the faithful are the ones who make things out of nothing. Everybody else, they make things out of ...

C. JoyBell C.

Horse Frightened by a Lion depicts a majestic stallion in a very different situation. Stubbs painted this magnetic masterpiece to illustrate the nature of the sublime, which was one of his era's most popular philosophical concepts,and its relation to...

Winifred Gallagher

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

The Collector

They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they'd have spat on at the time they were painted. Guffawed at. Made coarse jokes about.

The Collector

You'll never avoid every mistake. All you can do is try to do your best and live with the consequences.

Chips of Red Paint

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.

Carolina Rain

Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides.

Capturing the Sunset

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.

Dance Dance Dance

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

Education of a Wandering Man