Painted Quotes

547 quotes by 429 authors

I'd have avoided some of the pain if I could. Anyone would. But I wouldn't have missed knowing any of the people-even the ones whose… — Red Skelton
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm… — David Hockney
How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do… — Paul Provenza
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged… — Lewis H. Lapham
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri
I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes to the monkey… — Marat Safin
Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed… — Neil Simon
As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring. — Wassily Kandinsky
To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're… — Warren Christopher
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff — Bill Sienkiewicz
Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see… — Richard Bach
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
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to… — Odilon Redon
What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model is… — John L. Casti
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -… — H. L. Mencken
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography — Pablo Picasso
But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able… — Boris Johnson
Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has… — Joan Miro
I was walking along a road one evening â€“ on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down… — Edvard Munch
Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal… — William Rothenstein

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