Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
~By Michelangelo ~
People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
~By Ralph Allen ~
I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
~By Ovid ~
Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
~By Derek Jarman ~
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
~By William Glasser ~
I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.
~By Nellie Bly ~
Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
~By Aeschylus ~
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
~By Andre Malraux ~
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
~By Marc Chagall ~
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
~By John Updike ~
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
~By Alan Watts ~
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
~By Robert Musil ~
When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.
~By Rod Taylor ~
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'
~By Albert Finney ~
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
~By Roy Lichtenstein ~
I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.
~By John Dyer ~
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
~By Josef Albers ~
I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
~By Andy Gibb ~
Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
~By Minoru Yamasaki ~
Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.
~By Minnie Driver ~
I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
~By Pete Townshend ~
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.
~By Ernst Haas ~
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.
~By Nelson Goodman ~
I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
~By Alberto Giacometti ~
I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
~By Robinson Jeffers ~
Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
~By Rene Magritte ~
I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.
~By James Caan ~
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
~By Grandma Moses ~
Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
~By LaToya Jackson ~
Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
~By John Dyer ~
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
~By Robert Plant ~
When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
~By Frank Stella ~
Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.
~By Kenneth Noland ~
You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.
~By Gordie Howe ~
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
~By Julius Caesar ~
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.
~By Julio Iglesias ~
To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.
~By Holly Near ~
I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.
~By Sophie Marceau ~
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
~By Jackson Pollock ~
We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.
~By Jon Porter ~
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
~By Josef Albers ~
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.
~By Jodie Foster ~
I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.
~By Mike Thompson ~
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.
~By David Hasselhoff ~
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
~By Aeschylus ~
Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
~By Chester W. Nimitz ~
The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.
~By Katherine Whitehorn ~
Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her.
~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
~By John Henry Newman ~
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
~By George Eliot ~
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
~By Frida Kahlo ~
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
~By Matthew Henry ~
There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
~By John Travolta ~
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.
~By Sophia Bush ~
I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.
~By Kiana Tom ~
The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
~By Barbara Olson ~
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
~By William Allan ~
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
~By Lucian Freud ~
I like to paint nudes mostly.
~By Cleo Moore ~
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.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.
~By David Amram ~
Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.
~By Ken Norton ~
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
~By Simone Weil ~
For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.
~By Dustin Hoffman ~
I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.
~By John Dyer ~
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.
~By Anita Baker ~
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
~By David Rockefeller ~
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
~By Howard Hodgkin ~
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
~By Margaret Mead ~
I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.
~By Clarence Clemons ~
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
~By William Faulkner ~
Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
~By Leopold Stokowski ~
I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.
~By David Cross ~
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
~By Robert Fulghum ~
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.
~By Donna Tartt ~
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
~By Bridget Riley ~
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
~By Richard Owen ~
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