Painted Quotes

547 Painted quotes by 429 unique authors

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached… — Tom Wesselmann
I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist. — Helen Frankenthaler
One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the… — Jasper Johns
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted. — Mark Twain
No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe — John Steinbeck
I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the… — James Turrell
Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion! — Charles Spurgeon
In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves. — H.G. Wells
October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a… — Henry David Thoreau
I am a clown, just without the painted smile. — Chevy Chase
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story… — Ambrose Bierce
Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second, the eyes. To… — Swami Vivekananda
Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of. — Paul Gauguin
Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of… — Gary Zukav
Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them. — James Franco
I painted sets before I ever performed. — Christopher Guest
For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl. — Nicollette Sheridan
I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers, — Janis Joplin
I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted. — Ian Mckellen
No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To… — Edmund Spenser
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then… — Henry David Thoreau
When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty! — Ernesto Illy
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go. — Vincent Van Gogh
It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian,… — James A. Michener
He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and… — Oscar Wilde

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