Painting Quote by Sarah Dunant Download Open image ““you draw" (the painter)”” — Sarah Dunant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painting
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I am not a painter. I am the painting. Where the painter has got lost into the painting. — OSHO Copy Share Image
“The drawing is also a reminder that there’s an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“An artist is a performer on the canvas. A dancer with a paintbrush. A musician with the paint. A poet in each stroke.” — Melissa Regas Copy Share Image
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
“Johannes Burchard. The only man in Rome whose face remains the same be it perfume or shit under his nose.” — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration. — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
“...there is a kind of comfort to be gained from the passing of time, hour upon hour, day upon day, time falling like thick… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
“She is only a young woman who did not want to become a nun. The world is full of them.” — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
“Either you’re standing under your haloes, eyes up to heaven, or you’re munching apples in their faces and flashing your bush. I’m not even… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own. — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
“There have been none like us before. And there will be none afterwards. Be careful what you write.” — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
“Outside, the city is changing. While we have been talking of God's laws and seacrets of the earth, a cold fog has come rolling… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
“Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy. — Sarah Dunant 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