Painting Quotes
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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
George Tooker
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through
Dan Rice
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt
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There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.
A. Alfred Taubman
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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr
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I`ve been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.
Stephen Wright
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If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
Peter Shaffer
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen
Leonardo da Vinci
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen
Leonardo da Vinci
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch
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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
Georgia O`Keeffe
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
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Every song is like a painting.
Dick Dale
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador Dali
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
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I`ve been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that`s going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen`s lavatory.
David Niven
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I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.
Vincent Gallo
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Part of me believes in anonymous art. I got that from a writer named Jamake Highwater, who wrote about painting before the Renaissance. The way people related to art in, say, ancient Greece. How it was about the community for the community and not the sel...
Gus Van Sant
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Life is short... I like to pay attention while I`m going through it. Whatever I see, like anyone else, I`m going to filter it and create my own idea of what it is. - on painting, creating music, writing poetry, and taking photographs in addition to acting
Viggo Mortensen
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[on buying a copy of Upton Sinclair`s "Oil!", which he adapted into There Will Be Blood (2007)] I was homesick and the book had a painting of California on the cover.
Paul Anderson
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Acting is still enjoyable, but there are no more challenges any more for me. No, none at all. I`m much more interested in painting and composing music these days. I`ve become what I always wanted to be, a jobbing actor. I`m just detached, I do my thing. I...
Anthony Hopkins
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Movie making is not like other artforms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be disgested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it`s always judged on money.
M. Shyamalan
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On the role of an actor in film: "It comes down to the fact that you supply the blue, and they supply the other colors and mix them with your blue, and maybe there`s some blue left in the painting and maybe there isn`t. Maybe there wasn`t supposed to be a...
Viggo Mortensen
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I don`t think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment. My parents gave me the knowledge that reading isn`t a bad thing, and admitting to liking a painting doesn`t make you an arse-bandit. And that wouldn`t h...
Martin Freeman
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On careers other than acting: "I probably would have become a veterinarian, or I might have lived on a ranch somewhere and raised horses, or I might have become more serious about painting, or I might have worked in a Burger King."
Elizabeth McGovern
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I`m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it`s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even liter...
Federico Fellini
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I look at film as closer to a painting or a piece of music; it`s an impression . . . an impression of character and total atmosphere . . . The attempt is to enlist an audience emotionally, not intellectually.
Robert Altman
