Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Gates

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

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.

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.

Albert Camus

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

Albert Camus

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Damien Hirst

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

Andre Breton

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

Andrew Wyeth

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

Anthony Hopkins

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

Alexander McCall Smith

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Alexander Pope

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Donald O'Connor

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

David Hasselhoff

My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

Dave Hickey

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't,

Anthony Quinn

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

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 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.

Morgan Fairchild

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

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

Agnes Martin

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

Blake Anderson

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

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.

We painted him a shirt; it was still wet when he put it on.

Fritz Scholder

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.