“ Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 4K
“ Vermont's a place where barns come painted. Red as a strong man's heart, Where stout carts and stout boys in freckles, Are highest forms of art. ”
- Robert Tristram Coffin- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. ”
- Jimi Hendrix- Copy
- 541
“ Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course. ”
- John Hurt- Copy
- 1.1K
“ We are made so that we love first, when we see them painted, things we have passed perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see. ”
- Katie Lee- Copy
- 2K
“ The best books are yet to be written; the best paintings have not yet been painted; the best governments are yet to be formed; the best is yet to be done by you! ”
- John Erskine- Copy
- 3.9K
“ For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 105
“ Love looks not with thine eyes, but with thine mind, Therefore is win'd Cupid painted blind. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.4K
“ If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted on the Sistine floor. ”
- Neil Simon- Copy
- 2.1K
“ No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented, except literally to get out of hell. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
- 67
“ One day a student asked Taiga, "What is the most difficult part of painting?" Taiga answered, "The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult.". ”
- Zen Saying- Copy
- 1.2K
“ There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. ”
- Henri Matisse- Copy
- 629
“ When I was 10, I entered the NFL Gatorade Punt, Pass, and Kick contest. I came in 48th place. My passing stunk!! I went right home, painted a target on my tree and started throwing. And throwing. And throwing. And throwing. ”
- Dan Marino- Copy
- 2K
“ What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting. ”
- Bruce Barton- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. ”
- Alfred Whitney Griswold- Copy
- 1K
“ When I shared a room with my sister Trisha, we drew a line down the middle. She had Laura Ashley stuff with flowers everywhere, and her whole side of the room was white, while my side of the room was painted, freaky and covered with stuff. ”
- Melissa Joan Hart- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Once a thing's painted it's calm, and I thought, even if it shows a massacre of the innocents, the blade is still lifted, the blood isn't on the floor. I'd been particularly struck by this ridiculous little saint in San Gemignano who lay down on a plank aged fifteen and never got off it again, the saint of the town… ”
- Peter Porter- Copy
- 951
“ In the Squadron to which he belonged there was a rumor that the Red Machine was occupied by a girl, by a kind of Jeanne d'Arc. He was intensely surprised when I assured him that the supposed girl was standing in front of him. He did not intend to make a joke… ”
- Baron Manfred von Richthofen- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out. ”
- Norman Rockwell- Copy
- 3K
“ The mouth is always wrong on a portrait, you know. But in India, they all commented mostly on just one thnig, their color. I had no idea that skin color was so important there. But everyone I painted in that country thought I made them look too dark. ”
- Norman Rockwell- Copy
- 2K
“ A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ”
- John Updike- Copy
- 2.9K
“ If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well… ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 1.7K
“ If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 964
“ Except in a few well-publicized instances the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb. ”
- Lewis H. Lapham- Copy
- 1.4K
“ PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.3K
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