Spalding Gray Quotes

I see my pen as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

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• I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Painter
  • Related
  • Portrait

• Every good painter paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Good
  • Art
  • Painter

• I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Painter
  • Between
  • Abstract

• I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Painter
  • Indian

• If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'

  

  Angela Robinson
  • Artist
  • Lawyer
  • Painter

• If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • World
  • Stop

• The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • She
  • Woman
  • Intellectual

• ... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Men
  • Self
  • Breaths

• The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Important
  • Art
  • Painter

• A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

  

  Mary Astor
  • Movie
  • Actor
  • Writer

• At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Italian
  • Painter
  • Trudeau

• When you want to succeed in Real Estate, you have to breath it..you have to want it as much as air

  

  Jimmy Reed
  • Real
  • Want
  • Air

• And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Soul
  • Painter
  • Machines

• Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Way
  • Painter
  • Surrealism

• Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Communication
  • Breaths

• One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Running
  • Painter
  • Champagne

• For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Done
  • Film
  • Musician

• I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Think
  • Painter
  • Accident

• For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Artist
  • Film
  • Journey

• I still use felt tip pens for my notes, on a white board that I carry around with me. I am not into the computer technology - you can say that quite safely.

  

  John Motson
  • Notes
  • Pens
  • Safely

• Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Short
  • Warrior
  • Pacifist

• Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • Power
  • Inspiration
  • Records

• The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Research

• I see my pen as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Painter
  • Pens
  • Breaths