Oil Painting Quotes

21 Oil Painting quotes by 21 unique authors

With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes… — Jo Brand
I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect. — Harvey Fierstein
Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're… — Tina Fey
I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and… — Renee O'Connor
Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented — Willem de Kooning
Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard. — Unknown Author
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? — Edvard Munch
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became… — John Berger
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to… — Kurt Schwitters
Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is… — Paul Strand
I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger… — Chuck Close
I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City. — Bob Kane
Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting. — Joe Bradley
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. — Peter Shaffer
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look… — Banksy
A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself. — Richard Peck
Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting. — Frank Delaney
In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began… — Henry Flynt
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. — James Wolcott
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. — Stanley Horowitz

Who Wrote These Oil Painting Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 21 Oil Painting Quotes as follows: