With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
~By Patrick White ~
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
~By William Trevor ~
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
~By Balthus ~
And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
~By Jack Youngblood ~
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
~By Kim Novak ~
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
~By Philip Guston ~
We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
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 ~
Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
~By Howard Cosell ~
On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
~By William Scott ~
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
~By Jack Levine ~
Painting completed my life.
~By Frida Kahlo ~
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
~By Chuck Close ~
I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.
~By Leslie Easterbrook ~
As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.
~By Peter Garrett ~
We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
~By James Taylor ~
It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.
~By Cliff Richard ~
The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.
~By Martin Lewis Perl ~
The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
~By Wendy Wasserstein ~
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
~By Mark Strand ~
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
~By Edward Weston ~
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
~By John Ciardi ~
Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.
~By Frank Bruno ~
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
~By Tony Benn ~
I paint things as they are. I don't comment.
~By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ~
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
~By Lance Armstrong ~
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
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.
~By Georgia O'Keeffe ~
If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
~By H. G. Bohn ~
Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.
~By David Hyde Pierce ~
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
~By Mark Rothko ~
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
~By Georgia O'Keeffe ~
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.
~By Lee Krasner ~
You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!
~By Randy Bachman ~
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
~By Pierre Bonnard ~
I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
~By Howard Stern ~
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 ~
It seems like if you are not painted up special way or have some tailor made outfit to put on to go out on stage... I don't know... there's too much of it out there.
~By Phil Anselmo ~
In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.
~By Ruud van nistelrooy ~
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.
~By Vince Clarke ~
I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.
~By LaToya Jackson ~
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
~By Ad Reinhardt ~
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
~By Jung Chang ~
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 ~
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
~By Morris Graves ~
On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
~By Jimmy Breslin ~
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
~By Billy Joel ~
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.
~By Gustav Klimt ~
We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
~By Shaquille O'Neal ~
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
~By Edvard Munch ~
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
~By Neil Simon ~
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
~By Howard Hodgkin ~
The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.
~By David Bromstad ~
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
~By Joseph Addison ~
The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
~By Karl Radek ~
I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.
~By Jerry Harrison ~
Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.
~By Ricardo Montalban ~
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 ~
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
~By Tony Curtis ~
I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.
~By John Dyer ~
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
~By John French Sloan ~
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
~By Epictetus ~
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.
~By Red Grooms ~
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
~By Robert Hass ~
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
~By David Bailey ~
You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.
~By Joy Page ~
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
~By Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.
~By Dianne Wiest ~
People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.
~By Greg Norman ~
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.
~By Ernst Haas ~
I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
~By Treat Williams ~
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
~By Tony Robbins ~
I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.
~By Terri Windling ~
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