Willem de Kooning Quotes
I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
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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
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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.
Karl Pilkington
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I will keep painting until I die.
Yayoi Kusama
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
Damien Hirst
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Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.
Orla Brady
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin
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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
Iman
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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
Taylor Hanson Hanson
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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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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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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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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
A. P. Herbert
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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
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Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.
Gary Hume
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Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.
Van Morrison
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The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.
George Gershwin
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The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit.
G. Campbell Morgan
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Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!
Thomas Hood
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After I wake up, I always meditate.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
Willem de Kooning