Quotes about Painted

Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin. Votes: 3

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird Votes: 3

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. Votes: 3

Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception. Votes: 3

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. Votes: 1

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. Votes: 1

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. Votes: 1

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Votes: 1

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Votes: 1

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx. Votes: 1

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought. Votes: 1

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. Votes: 1

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot. Votes: 1

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. Votes: 1

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. Votes: 1

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. Votes: 1

It seems like if you are not painted up special way or have some tailor made outfit to put on to go out on stage... I don't know... there's too much of it out there. Votes: 1

I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face! Votes: 1

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. Votes: 1

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. Votes: 1

I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted. Votes: 1

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion. Votes: 1

I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the time, but looking back, I realize that my debut into Monaco society should have been better executed! Votes: 1

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense. Votes: 1

At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow. Votes: 1

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. Votes: 1

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.' Votes: 1

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. Votes: 1

Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft. Votes: 1

Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow. Votes: 1

Anything can be painted without representation. Votes: 0

I painted sets before I ever performed. Votes: 0

A soldier is a killer painted hero. Votes: 0

I painted myself out of my painting. Votes: 0

I have never painted a recent picture. Votes: 0

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Votes: 0

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas. Votes: 0

A painted surface is a real, living form. Votes: 0

I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers, Votes: 0

A pig painted gold is still a pig. Votes: 0

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside. Votes: 0

pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues ... Votes: 0

I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn. Votes: 0

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel? Votes: 0

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell. Votes: 0

God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair. Votes: 0

I am a clown, just without the painted smile. Votes: 0

Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase. Votes: 0

This world is painted on a wild dark metal Votes: 0

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show. Votes: 0

Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil. Votes: 0

How low am I, thou painted maypole? (Hermia to Helena) Votes: 0

Most women are not as young as they are painted. Votes: 0

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang. Votes: 0

The devil is not as black as he is painted. Votes: 0

Beauty without intelligence, is a masterpiece painted on a napkin. Votes: 0

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors. Votes: 0

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Votes: 0

I would have painted the White House black. I would have! Votes: 0

There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair! Votes: 0

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Votes: 0

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. Votes: 0

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ... Votes: 0

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy. Votes: 0

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography Votes: 0

No one ever ordered anything from me. I painted because I wanted to. Votes: 0

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness. Votes: 0

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night". Votes: 0

The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home. Votes: 0

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it. Votes: 0

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. Votes: 0

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait. Votes: 0

I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description. Votes: 0

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches... Votes: 0

Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness. Votes: 0

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow. Votes: 0

Britney painted her finger nails and it really seemed like they had a blast. Votes: 0

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story. Votes: 0

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel. Votes: 0

Her freckles were orange, as if somebody had spray-painted her face with liquid Cheetos. Votes: 0

Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only. Votes: 0

I have never painted as well as I thought I should, so frustration came early... Votes: 0

Calico KittyMy calico kittywas painted and primedshe could prowlthe night away ~without spending a dime... Votes: 0

Sweatpants painted to look like denim are the end of civilization. It drives me mental. Votes: 0

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture. Votes: 0

The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations. Votes: 0

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves. Votes: 0

Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes. Votes: 0

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions.It's really cool. Votes: 0

The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said. Votes: 0

If you have ever spray-painted your girlfriends name on an overpass, you might be a redneck. Votes: 0

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object. Votes: 0

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling. Votes: 0

I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out. Votes: 0

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years. Votes: 0

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard. Votes: 0

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. Votes: 0

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes. Votes: 0

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left. Votes: 0

I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing. Votes: 0

I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker. Votes: 0

But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones. Votes: 0

When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty! Votes: 0

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite. Votes: 0

I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside. Votes: 0

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids Votes: 0

Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of. Votes: 0

Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them. Votes: 0

All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside. Votes: 0

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself. Votes: 0

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives. Votes: 0

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it. Votes: 0

If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller. Votes: 0

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name. Votes: 0

Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you. Votes: 0

What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance. Votes: 0

The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being. Votes: 0

Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations. Votes: 0

You wouldn't get rid of the Mona Lisa just because someone painted another picture of a woman smiling. Votes: 0

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday. Votes: 0

Without good company all dainties Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes, Are only seen, not tasted. Votes: 0

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind. Votes: 0

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. Votes: 0

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. Votes: 0

This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell. Votes: 0

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all. Votes: 0

I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better. Votes: 0

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am. Votes: 0

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour. Votes: 0

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. Votes: 0

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished. Votes: 0

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room. Votes: 0

What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay. Votes: 0

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. Votes: 0

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist? Votes: 0

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering. Votes: 0

Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass. Votes: 0

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality. Votes: 0

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards. Votes: 0

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself. Votes: 0

Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers. Votes: 0

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. Votes: 0

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States. Votes: 0

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff Votes: 0

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush. Votes: 0

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry. Votes: 0

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it Votes: 0

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors. Votes: 0

In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you. Votes: 0

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. Votes: 0

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408) Votes: 0

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl. Votes: 0

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it... Votes: 0

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael. Votes: 0

You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun. Votes: 0

The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda. Votes: 0

I am moved, shaken, and when it is all over, I look at wonder at what is written or painted. Votes: 0

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. Votes: 0

The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. Votes: 0

Gerry Ford is easy to spot on the course. He drives the cart with the red cross painted on top. Votes: 0

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that. Votes: 0

A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish. Votes: 0

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art. Votes: 0

I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted. Votes: 0

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it. Votes: 0

How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this? Votes: 0

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them. Votes: 0

Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece. Votes: 0

Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us! Votes: 0

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. Votes: 0

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty. Votes: 0

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was. Votes: 0

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw. Votes: 0

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream. Votes: 0

The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler. Votes: 0

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal. Votes: 0

If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window. Votes: 0

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute. Votes: 0

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote. Votes: 0

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history. Votes: 0

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life. Votes: 0

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill. Votes: 0

Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean. Votes: 0

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. Votes: 0

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. Votes: 0

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence. Votes: 0

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made. Votes: 0

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in. Votes: 0

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece. Votes: 0

Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of. Votes: 0

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it. Votes: 0

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. Votes: 0

Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do? Votes: 0

The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes. Votes: 0

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. Votes: 0

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in. Votes: 0

I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist. Votes: 0

... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine. Votes: 0

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted. Votes: 0

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone. Votes: 0

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself. Votes: 0

Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer. Votes: 0

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. God bless those who see beyond our flaws painted in bold strokes. Votes: 0

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light. Votes: 0

All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted. Votes: 0

My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends... Votes: 0

We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won. Votes: 0

If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. Votes: 0

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint. Votes: 0

Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles... Votes: 0

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy. Votes: 0

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe Votes: 0

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies. Votes: 0

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by. Votes: 0

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs. Votes: 0

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell. Votes: 0

And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here. Votes: 0

Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward. Votes: 0

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait. Votes: 0

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by Votes: 0

Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted. Votes: 0

Naturally as a kid, I was inspired by Sting. I remember seeing him with the blonde hair, the neon tights, and the painted face. Votes: 0

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City. Votes: 0

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green. Votes: 0

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted. Votes: 0

A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.' Votes: 0

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road. Votes: 0

One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces. Votes: 0

Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard. Votes: 0

Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report? Votes: 0

[Louis] Brandeis is often painted as an acolyte of judicial restraint, or the view that judges should uphold laws whether or not they like them. Votes: 0

Picasso." He whispers like a priest. "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, moulded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands. Votes: 0

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go. Votes: 0

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences. Votes: 0

As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring. Votes: 0

Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color. Votes: 0

To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description. Votes: 0

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. Votes: 0

Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage. Votes: 0

The woods of Arcady are dead,And over it their antique joy;Of old the world on dreaming fed;Gray Truth is now her painted toy." Votes: 0

The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy. Votes: 0

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted. Votes: 0

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion! Votes: 0

Vermont's a place where barns come painted Red as a strong man's heart, Where stout carts and stout boys in freckles, Are highest forms of art Votes: 0

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that. Votes: 0

As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism. Votes: 0

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects. Votes: 0

Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist. Votes: 0

Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted. Votes: 0

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old. Votes: 0

I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair. Votes: 0

In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted. Votes: 0

Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges. Votes: 0

Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight, Whilst distance recommends them to the sight. Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear: But show their coarse and nauseous colors near. Votes: 0

When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner. Votes: 0

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery. Votes: 0

Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out... Votes: 0

I'm kinda tired. I was up all night trying to round off infinity. Then I got bored and went out and painted passing lines on curved roads. Votes: 0

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil Votes: 0

I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another. Votes: 0

It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign. Votes: 0

I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would have liked that. Votes: 0

The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others. Votes: 0

Every picture's painted differently, every one has got a vision in their mind. That fills the heart with answers, and the missing piece that we hope to find. Votes: 0

Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch up with all their phone calls. Votes: 0

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Votes: 0

Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer. Votes: 0

How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances, Votes: 0

Picasso.” He whispers like a priest. “Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands. Votes: 0

Tell people an invisible man in the sky created all things, they believe you. Tell them what you've painted is wet, they have to touch it to believe. Votes: 0

There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you. Votes: 0

I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light. Votes: 0

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. Votes: 0

Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods. Votes: 0

In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream. Votes: 0

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them. Votes: 0

In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face blue, wore crimson lipstick, and strung on some tight silver latex pants. Votes: 0

I regret my lack of options. I regret being painted into a corner and having that be the only instrument to get me from point A to point B. Votes: 0

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it. Votes: 0

...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life. Votes: 0

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter. Votes: 0

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm. Votes: 0

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15. Votes: 0

To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly. Votes: 0

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others. Votes: 0

Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real. Votes: 0

The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries. Votes: 0

The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons. Votes: 0

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke. Votes: 0

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. Votes: 0

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world. Votes: 0

This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence? Votes: 0

Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours. Votes: 0

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay. Votes: 0

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe. Votes: 0

The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on. Votes: 0

Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely. Votes: 0

If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him. Votes: 0

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore. Votes: 0

I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now the last few years it's gotten more serious. Votes: 0

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. Votes: 0

Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada Votes: 0

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at. Votes: 0

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg. Votes: 0

The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities. Votes: 0

Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.' Votes: 0

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I'm going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it. Votes: 0

I love visual art. I painted for many years when I was younger. I have studied modern/contemporary Indian art a bit and am very impressed with the talent in India. Votes: 0

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them. Votes: 0

Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong. Votes: 0

In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings. Votes: 0

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle. Votes: 0

Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible. Votes: 0

When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath. Votes: 0

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic. Votes: 0

I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings. Votes: 0

Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen. Votes: 0

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. Votes: 0

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door. Votes: 0

In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man. Votes: 0

Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies ... Tod LangleyI have that painted on my office wall and love to stare at it. Votes: 0

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting. Votes: 0

The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship. Votes: 0

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas? Votes: 0

Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends? Votes: 0

The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at will. He doesn't paint but is painted through. Votes: 0

The Deadwood dirt they painted on us with powder. The air always smelled of livestock and something burning, gave a sooty, dense feel to the air. It was a mixture of odors. Votes: 0

I have a lot of Burberry items at home, including one dress that I loved so much that I had my living room painted to match because the color was so flattering. Votes: 0

People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate. Votes: 0

To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're hung out to dry and, finally, you're framed. Votes: 0

I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love. Votes: 0

The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth. Votes: 0

When the Left agitates over government policies, it's considered righteous anger. When the Right - and much of the center - agitate, it's painted as the rantings of the criminally and violently insane. Votes: 0

I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world. Votes: 0

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger. Votes: 0

With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds. Votes: 0

I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and wearing a German WWI helmet painted silver and black) Votes: 0

I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset. Votes: 0

The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me. Votes: 0

Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there. Votes: 0

I, in my brand new body, which was not a woman's yet, told the stars my questions and thought God could really see the heat and the painted light, elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight. Votes: 0

The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path. Votes: 0

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne. Votes: 0

My dad worked - f - k if I know - seven jobs? He painted a house. He would deliver toilets. He drove a cab, delivered pizzas. Whatever he could do, he did. Votes: 0

Like the kite that caught up to the sky,painted with clouds, I lost track of it, but it was connected by string, something I was holding, something I could always bring back. Votes: 0

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Votes: 0

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone. Votes: 0

A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of. Votes: 0

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field. Votes: 0

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up. Votes: 0

I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it - can be painted. Votes: 0

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested. Votes: 0

I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did - all of these peoples' lives went on. Votes: 0

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth. Votes: 0

Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick. Votes: 0

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course. Votes: 0

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature. Votes: 0

I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process. Votes: 0

One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people outside. "You Americans have the strangest taste. What planet is this? Votes: 0

Do I need fifty finger-painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life? Mementos work best when they're carefully chosen - and when they don't take up much room! Votes: 0

The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived. Votes: 0

The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke. Votes: 0

That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana." This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of yellow, and it was blotched with dings and rust like splotches of decay. Votes: 0

No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd. Votes: 0

In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies. Votes: 0

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then. Votes: 0

I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store. The figures around me weren't people, but shop dummies, painted to resemble people and propped up in attitudes counterfeiting life. Votes: 0

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted. Votes: 0

It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or mechanical way, by silk-screening or by tracing from epidiascope projections, and so on. Votes: 0

Woven through Timothy J. Clark's paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions which intrigue beyond the beautifully-painted forms of the subjects. Votes: 0