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Painting Quotes by E. J. Hughes
- I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and…
- I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more…
- One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among…
- It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get…
- I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and…
- It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
- It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.
- I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.
- The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches…
- It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.
- Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it.…
- I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.
- My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.
- Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working…
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- My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested… — Dan Aykroyd
- All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time… — David Bailey
- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
- Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat