Jessica Stockholder Quotes
Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.
Jessica Stockholder
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Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.
Fat Joe
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
Walter Gropius
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
Gail Carson Levine
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Jackson Pollock
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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
Laura Mennell
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Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
Fernando Botero
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
P. J. Harvey
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
Walter Gropius
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I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders. "The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too." "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.
Charlotte Bronte
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I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.
Brian Chippendale
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She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape.
P. G. Wodehouse
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If I married him,I would not dare to call my soul my own,Which so he had bought and paid for: every thoughtAnd every heart-beat down there in the bill,–Not one found honestly deductibleFrom any use that pleased him!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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'I want five children, like in my own family, because with five, then I will know that one will be guaranteed to turn out like me,' Donald told a close friend.
Donald Trump
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Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.
Jessica Stockholder
