Painted Quotes

547 Painted quotes by 429 unique authors

You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or… — George Edward Woodberry
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic… — Martin Filler
Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart… — Frances Mayes
Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time,… — Nicole Krauss
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. — William Shakespeare
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it… — Tom Robbins
We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in… — Georges Bataille
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look… — E. M. Forster
A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially… — Gregory Maguire
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth,… — Anne Lamott
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. — Haruki Murakami
Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even… — R A Salvatore
The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by — Susanna Clarke
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to… — William S. Burroughs
Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush,… — Sara Shepard
Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where… — Mark Twain
He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though,… — Markus Zusak
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the… — C.S. Lewis
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of… — John Berger

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