Painted Quotes

547 Painted quotes by 429 unique authors

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't… — Lincoln Steffens
Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds… — Irenaeus of Lyons
It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon… — John Owen
Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti… — Mia Kirshner
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still… — Unknown Author
I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the… — Albert Oehlen
If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be painted on houses,… — Martin Luther
I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and wearing… — Unknown Author
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. — Antonin Artaud
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is… — Hannah More
I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I… — Paul Desmond
I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily… — Todd Rundgren
Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be… — James Madison
I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a… — Bruce Willis
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

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