Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I'd always thought it was gaudy, but standing there watching him beside the gold and glass shrine, I realised that his was… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting. — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Copy Share Image
“Eliot did to the word love what the Russians did to the word democracy. If Eliot is going to love everybody, no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I took a course in art last winter. I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like… — Veta Louise Simmons Copy Share Image
The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift. — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
A fan once gave me an oil painting of myself. I couldn't believe he had taken that much effort and time to… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
I sent an ex of mine an enormous oil painting of me as a housewarming gift. It was one of the most… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a great and glorious nation. Favourite amongst his subjects was the court… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. — Stanley Horowitz Copy Share Image
In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
“St. Albert and the LSD Revelation Revolution oil painting by Alex Grey, 2006 color image in the book Net of Being by… — Rhoney Gissen Stanley Copy Share Image
Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
“On the wall facing him was an oil painting of two Spitfires taking off, a none-too-subtle reminder of the prime minister’s war… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are… — John Berger Copy Share Image