Events Quote by Elaine de Kooning Download Open image “A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.” — Elaine de Kooning ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Events Firsts Nouns Painting Verbs
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums. — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it. — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking,… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image