Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Bridget Riley

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

Brian Setzer

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

Aldo Leopold

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

Dylan Moran

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

Derek Walcott

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Andy Stanley

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

Edgar Degas

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Craig McHugh

The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.

Sydney Smith

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Alexander Graham Bell

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Adolf Hitler

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

Alfred North Whitehead

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

Andy Kindler

Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Pierre Bonnard

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

Jordan Bridges

I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.

G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Fred Gwynne

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Christian Marclay

I have never been much of a painter.

Hugo Chavez

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.