Painting Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.

  Theodore Millon

  Distance, Personality, Pieces

  Theodore Millon, Roger Dale Davis (1996). “Disorders of personality: DSM-IV and beyond”, Wiley

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

  Marion Bartoli

  Earth, Normal, Produce

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• Ring sense is an art, a gift from God that flows out of a fighter like a great painting flows out of an artist, or a great book flows out of an author.

  Ray Arcel

  Art, Book, Flow

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• ... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

  George Eliot

  Imperfection, Insight, Staring

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2220, Delphi Classics

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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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• The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Voice, Trying, Sound

  "The World's Fastest Indian - Anthony Hopkins interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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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• 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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• What can books of men that wive
  In a dragon-guarded land,
  Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
  Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
  Do, but awake a hope to live...?

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Hope, Art

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pablo Picasso (2004). “Pablo Picasso und Marie-Thérèse Walter: zwischen Klassizismus und Surrealismus”

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• Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

  Mason Cooley

  Garden, Snakes, Paradise

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• [King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

  Horace Walpole

  Kings, Son, News

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• More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Often Is, Dancing

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.86, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Language, Natural

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.242

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• The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.

  Walter Pater

  Creativity, Exercise, Imagination

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.

  Alexander Eliot

  Men, Hands, Color

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• Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.

  Julia Marlowe

  Music, Beauty, Art

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• In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Writing, Men

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.

  David Lynch

  Keys, Intuition, Joining Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word I like to use, rather than monstrous - as the sympathetic characters in the painting. It's interesting because some people will get it right away, but a common reaction is to be a little off-put by it. And that is the whole idea. If it grabs somebody in a negative way, that's my intention.

  Chris Mars

  Character, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Sex, Writing, Expression

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

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• If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.

  Ethan Hawke

  Art, Play, Looks

  "Ethan Hawke Talks the Purge, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says About Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something.

  Maddie Ziegler

  Makeup, Hair, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed their idea that the God who made them and shaped their destinies was symbolized in themselves. . .

  Henry McNeal Turner

  Destiny, Race, Ideas

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