Painted Quotes

547 Painted quotes by 429 unique authors

And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here. — Philip Freneau
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool… — William Blake
Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time… — Edvard Munch
The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida!… — Henry Austin Dobson
Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience… — Georgia O'Keeffe
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we… — Stephane Mallarme
Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas. — Stephane Mallarme
The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass… — Paramahansa Yogananda
I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has… — Claude Monet
If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures… — Thomas Merton
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping… — Annie Besant
Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers. — Guillaume Apollinaire
When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the… — Dogen
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and… — Dogen
In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it… — Robert Motherwell
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted. — Robert Henri
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside. — Paul Cezanne
Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those… — Paul Cezanne
Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way… — Emily Carr
Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great… — Lucian Freud
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. — Lucian Freud
Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being… — Morris Graves
I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it. — Winslow Homer

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