Painting Quote by John Lurie Download Open image “I like to draw and paint. It is a river to me.” — John Lurie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painting
I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
I love to draw and paint. I did all the illustrations in my books, so I always have my watercolours with me. I was… — Rachel Khoo Copy Share Image
I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
I think humor is actually a very serious thing. I think the people who shaped culture, for the better, in the last 50 years… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
I think the Native Americans had the right idea about preserving and respecting the earth. Not just using it up. We are not the center of the universe and that we think we are will most likely be the end of us. Then nature will go on its way, with humans only being a faint ugly memory. And yes I… — John Lurie Copy Share
I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they are done… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings,… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
I attempt to create a world that hypnotizes me as I make it. I hope others can get lost in it in the same way, but to be honest, I don't care that much. It isn't like a basketball player is out on the court hoping that people like the game of basketball as the game goes on. If people… — John Lurie Copy Share
It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it. — John Lurie 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
