Painted Quotes

547 Painted quotes by 429 unique authors

Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully… — Yves Klein
Throw away those little pieces of paper. Get yourself a big, beautiful canvas. Bring from this nature the most beautiful colors. Find the serene scene… — Prem Rawat
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures… — Norman Rockwell
Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone… — Ai Weiwei
Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday. — Charles Saatchi
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of… — Walter J. Phillips
Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do? — Eric Maisel
If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years. — John F. Carlson
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when… — Walter Darby Bannard
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its… — Fernando Botero
In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need… — Maria Mitchell
Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass. — Frank Shamrock
It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it. — Joe Bradley
I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and… — Paula Modersohn-Becker
The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself. — Alice Neel
Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a… — Joseph Plaskett
I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate… — Oskar Kokoschka
If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait. — Alvin Langdon Coburn
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class,… — George Bernard Shaw
The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home. — John Greenleaf Whittier
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember… — John Cusack
I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's… — Ellen DeGeneres
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. — Jimi Hendrix

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