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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. — D. H. Lawrence
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously… — Jean de la Bruyere
I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest… — Hendrik Tennekes
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of… — William Shakespeare
I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well. — Grace Hartigan
If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint. — Unknown Author
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the… — Swami Vivekananda
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there,… — Anne Lamott
It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting. — Pierre Bonnard
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying… — Boris Pasternak
When one is painting one does not think. — Raphael
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You… — Buffy Sainte-Marie
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.… — Lorenz Hart
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. — Robert Rauschenberg
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. — William Shakespeare
Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some things need to… — Andy Wilkinson
I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere… — M. Ward
Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in… — David Massengill
A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist - moving an audience through a movie ... making them think the way you want them to think, painting… — Gordon Willis
I didn’t paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy’s living room, — Ralph Fasanella
It's like a puzzle or a painting or music. When I ski, it's like a song. I can hear the rhythm in my head, and… — Mikaela Shiffrin
I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting. — Scott McClanahan
I know this is a bit redundant, but it is really hard to explain just how loud Tiger Stadium is when you're standing on the… — Wright Thompson

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