Dark Quote by Susanna Reid

“A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.”

— Robert Rauschenberg

We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana…

— Christian Dior

There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you.…

— Kehinde Wiley

Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing more than…

— Melanie McGrath

“She went alone to the vast room where the second-hand clothes were kept. Later, she thought it the happiest hour of her life. There…

— Martine Bailey

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

— Gerhard Richter

What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique…

— A. Y. Jackson

Women of African descent, since the beginning of time, have altered their hair, decorated it and used it to designate status.

— A'Lelia Bundles

I always thought those old drab clothes from 'Silk Stockings' were the worst things I wore.

— Cyd Charisse

And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

“In the morning we shed our blue sheep’s clothing. Our border shirts came out of satchels and onto our backs. We preferred this means…

— Daniel Woodrell

“Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their…

— Bill Bryson