Painting Quote by O. Henry Download Open image ““He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.”” — O. Henry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painting
“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
“A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.” — Paul Gardner Copy Share Image
“I want to paint something that no one has ever painted before," he was saying. I almost laughed at that -- doesn't every artist?… — Mary F. Burns Copy Share Image
“You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to… — Gordon MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been, and will… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I was so thankful He gave me this chance to enter a painting, for painting was my weakness. If I could do only two… — R.A. Rooney Copy Share Image
“She painted because she loved to paint. She never exhibited. She had no career, no ambitions for her work except that it be good,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Some day you will be able to step back and see the entire work of art. In that moment you will understand how truly… — Alex Alexander Copy Share Image
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.” — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). — O. Henry Copy Share Image
There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands. — O. Henry 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
