Peter Doig Quotes
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
Dan Colen -
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Viggo Mortensen -
I will keep painting until I die.
Yayoi Kusama -
I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
Damien Hirst -
When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
Camilla Belle -
Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
Taylor Negron
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
Rachel Kushner -
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
Quentin Blake -
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
Gary Hume -
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 -
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 -
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
Caio Fonseca -
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Pablo Picasso -
My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock -
Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I used to stand in front of the mic and cry.
Isaac Hayes
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
J. M. Coetzee -
Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.
Hillary Clinton -
The greatest joy I get is setting up plays for somebody else. I take a lot of pride in helping other people make plays.
Troy Polamalu -
The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.
Le Corbusier -
Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.
Peter Doig