Painted Quotes

547 Painted quotes by 429 unique authors

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of… — Kevin McCloud
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw. — Edvard Munch
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I… — Edvard Munch
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. — Georgia O'Keeffe
It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. — Yoko Ono
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is… — Pablo Picasso
Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the… — Norman Rockwell
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is… — Mark Rothko
I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as… — Mark Rothko
Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars,… — Jerry Saltz
When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know,… — Andy Serkis
In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the… — Vikram Seth
If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. — Neil Simon
Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet.… — Simon Sinek
People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that… — Steven Spielberg
When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off… — Donna Tartt
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. — Mark Twain
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent… — John Updike
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. — Oscar Wilde
I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school… — Jonathan Winters

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