Painted Quotes

547 Painted quotes by 429 unique authors

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
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. — David Hockney
How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest… — Philip Johnson
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. — Erica Jong
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought. — Janis Joplin
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to… — Henri Matisse

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