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

• 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

• They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Together
  • Lips
  • Mets

• Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Bitter
  • Breaths
  • Foe

• My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

  

  John Wooden
  • Good

• Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • King
  • Movies
  • Books

• You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Society
  • You
  • Know

• Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Beach

• A lot of people have a hard time living out of a suitcase, being on the road constantly in different cities. For us it's just kind of what we do. You do get homesick. I miss my wife, I miss my home, I miss my dogs, I miss my kitchen, which is something I like to do outside of this is cook. You miss the simple things. But when you look at the big picture we get to see a crazy amount of cities and the people we get to meet, all over the world it kind of makes up for it. It makes you realize how lucky you are because it could be gone tomorrow you just never know.

  

  Barry Kerch
  • Wife
  • Cities
  • Meet

• 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
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