Painted Quotes

547 Painted quotes by 429 unique authors

Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived like one not… — Hartley Coleridge
The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery. There lies companies… — Myles Munroe
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's… — Thomas Otway
I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars… — E L Doctorow
This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a… — Mary McCarthy
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I… — Roy Lichtenstein
Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid… — W. E. B. Du Bois
People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair… — Hedi Slimane
How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this? — Hans Rookmaaker
I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family… — Rebecca Wells
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise,… — Anthony Trollope
Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light,… — John Hurt
I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a… — Gerhard Richter
When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to… — Gerhard Richter
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has… — Lincoln Steffens
This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own… — Gerhard Richter
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification:… — Gerhard Richter
As a matter of fact, it was only through the dealer Fred Jahn that I succeeded in overcoming my reservation about the works on paper… — Gerhard Richter
The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state, that was very… — Gerhard Richter

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