Painting Quote by Edward Hirsch Download Open image ““I keep scraping the canvas And painting him over again But he keeps slipping away”” — Edward Hirsch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painting
“The artist is now giving a first coat of paint to that tautly stretched canvas which the scientist has been so busy stretching that… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.” — Leonhard Emmerling Copy Share Image
“I was a masterpiece; a painting in itself. He was changing me, molding me, and making me into something brand new. I was a… — Evelyn Deshane Copy Share Image
“There were canvases in our backseat. We had tried to flog them at Max's Kansas City the night before, but we had failed. Paintings… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“I think the general’s job is harder than the painter’s; canvas doesn’t fight back, after all.” — Django Wexler Copy Share Image
“The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“Life's one big great canvas; you should throw all the paint on it you can,” — Danny Kaye Copy Share Image
“My work is the art I paint on the canvas of my life. Hopefully I'm creating a masterpiece.” — L.R.W. Lee Copy Share Image
“The paper is your canvas. The pen is your brush. Create your masterpiece.” — Julian Vaughan Hampton Copy Share Image
“When he worked on this painting, he felt sometimes as if he were flying, as if the world of galleries and parties and other… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very beginning and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night The mountaintop is not… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Fall" Fall, falling, fallen. That’s the way the season Changes its tense in the long-haired maples That dot the road; the veiny hand-shaped leaves… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think in terms of educating a group of readers, MFA programs are very good. I just think the model of MFA programs in… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Jonson wrote a poem and called his son His best piece of poetrie A lovely line a little loathsome I loved that poem once… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I think I'm a guy who can get into the paint, make plays and obviously distribute and make plays for other guys, too. — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
“Love them all," said Renoir. "That is the secret, young man. Love them all." The painter let go of his arm and shrugged. "Then,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares… — Nina Schuyler Copy Share Image
I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
“Your soul is your paintbrush, your world is your canvass, your life is your masterpiece.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
