Painting Quote by Elliott Smith Download Open image ““Tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint”” — Elliott Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painting Pot of gold
“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But nobody listens to artists any more. Paint cannot stop progress, only color it.” — Michael Walterich Copy Share Image
“Life is a great big canvas,and you should throw all paint you can on it……” — Danny Kaye 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
“Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren't going to earn a living?… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“Sometimes, you have to step into oblivion, in order to paint success.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“We all can’t paint like Van Gogh. We might not be the ones who found cure for cancer or invented flying shoes but it… — Nesta Jojoe Erskine Copy Share Image
“In the canvas of the coming year, paint not just with colors of knowledge, but with the bold strokes of your inner genius, crafting… — Dr. Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote. The truth is death, he wrote. I’ve fought nicely against it as long… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that. — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else. — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear. — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know. — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think… — Elliott Smith 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, most of them no bigger than a tea tray. Their thin browns, ashy grays, and muted blues made people speak softly to one another, as if a shouted word might curdle one of the paintings and… — Steve Martin Copy Share
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 at the bird's bright orange eyes. Like the color of the bird's wings in the painting. Or the small touch of lichen on the rock by the Japanese woman's foot. Natalia did not truly see the… — Nina Schuyler Copy Share
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
