Painted Quotes
547 quotes by 442 authors
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In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the withering and consumption…
— John Owen
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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
— Edvard Munch
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It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my…
— Irving Stone
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Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
— Patrick Duffy
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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't…
— Lincoln Steffens
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Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon…
— John Owen
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Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti…
— Mia Kirshner
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The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still…
— Hilma af Klint
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I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the…
— Albert Oehlen
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If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be painted on houses,…
— Martin Luther
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I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and wearing…
— Ted Hendricks
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
— Antonin Artaud
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Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is…
— Hannah More
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I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I…
— Paul Desmond
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I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily…
— Todd Rundgren
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Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be…
— James Madison
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I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a…
— Bruce Willis
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