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 -
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
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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 -
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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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 -
Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
Fernando Botero
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I lived in Arizona, and I thought Florida was in California because I thought oranges came from the same place.
Jennifer Rubin -
I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.
Portia de Rossi -
Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.
Hillary Clinton -
Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.
Paul Theroux -
we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.
Peter Doig