Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Gates

If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?

Morgan Fairchild

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

The paint was cracked, so we sanded everything down and patched the holes. We made it more welcoming.

Brian Robertson

The paints don't have any formaldehyde in them.

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

The painting put all of the pieces together and proved it was real.

I wish I could paint like that again, but I don't want to go there again.

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

John Burnside

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.

Edvard Munch

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

Edvard Munch

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

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.

Alfred Sisley

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

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

Abbey Lincoln

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

Damien Hirst

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

Pierre Bonnard

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

Persis Khambatta

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

I think we've got the transition set up pretty seamless. Obviously, weather plays a role in the painting of the field, but that's something we can't control.

We send volunteers to paint over graffiti, but it bogs down when you have to go through a property manager.

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.

While it's true that power is being restored and schools are being painted and progress is being made

When you are putting out a competitive lineup, it's like painting a picture for the judges.

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.

Ellsworth Kelly

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.

Ellsworth Kelly

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

Agnes Martin

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.