Paints Quotes

166 quotes by 141 authors

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil… — Truman Capote
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than… — Vincent Van Gogh
The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night.… — Dorothy Parker
In a way, her strangeness, her naivetÃ©, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she… — Toni Morrison
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. — Pablo Picasso
Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. — Henry Rollins
Addie, please." More tears dripped down her cheeks. "Don't be so hard." "Oh, please," I muttered...and that was as far as I got. 'You broke… — Jennifer Weiner
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age. — Vera Nazarian
If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him. — George R. R. Martin
My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious… — Mira Grant
That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting,… — Joni Mitchell
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha… — Arthur Golden
He's been out for a while," she said. "You ready to take a break?" Hopper could exist in this living form or be transformed into… — Richelle Mead
Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of… — Laini Taylor
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. — Max Nordau
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although… — Blaise Pascal
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. — Leopold Stokowski
Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by… — James Freeman Clarke

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