Painting Quotes - Page 20

• If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

  Chris Cornell

  Race, Car, Musical

  "Chris Cornell throws down". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. April 22, 2009.

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• My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

  Frida Kahlo

  Children, Pain, Thinking

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• When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

  Edward Hopper

  Goes On, Week, Mood

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• When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of the painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.

  Charley Harper

  Lying, Artist, Color

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• I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

  Peter Doig

  Deadline, Ifs

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• I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

  Rick Astley

  Uncles, Dad, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Color, Drawing, Done

  "An Abstract Master Puts on a Plant Show" by Kimberly Chou, The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2012.

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• The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Sculpture, Woods, Canvas

  "Ellsworth Kelly creates from all angles". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. May 10, 2009.

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• I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics. The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.

  Alan Lightman

  Law, Play, Ideas

  Alan Lightman (2000). “Great Ideas in Physics”, p.1, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Important, Encounters

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• Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity “Love Ride” by donating a painting to this cause.

  Jay Leno

  Years, Support, Causes

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• I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

  Lee Iacocca

  Good Friend, Portraits, Heard

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• Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.

  Jane Kenyon

  Dog, Sweet, Strong

  Jane Kenyon (1996). “Otherwise: new and selected poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Art, Class, Chinese

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• I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

  Rafael Moneo

  Attitude, Drawing, Humanity

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• If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

  Chris Lilley

  Thinking, Too Much, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A great painting is a great painting.

  Larry Poons

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• For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

  Joan Miro

  Giving, Dazzle, Sparks

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• I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.

  JWoww

  Art, Jobs, Queens

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• Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.

  Lynn Shelton

  Class, Voice, Acting

  "Filmmaker Lynn Shelton: ‘There’s This Real Deliciousness To Being Able To Do Exactly What You Want To Do’" by Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 05, 2013.

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• It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Nice, Writing, Careers

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• If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.

  Bill Watterson

  Taken, Museums, Drawing

  Source: library.osu.edu

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• When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Children, Looks

  "Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D) - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Self, Hands

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?

  Christopher Willard

  Thinking, Make You Think, Brain

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