Kate Chopin Quotes
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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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Viggo Mortensen -
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans Hofmann -
I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
Captain Beefheart -
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 -
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
Abraham Lincoln
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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 -
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid -
Hope is not a matter of age.
Abbe Pierre -
One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
Jack Lowden -
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
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I'd love my children no matter what.
Victoria Osteen -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
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 -
Cyber terrorists are no different from other terrorists: No matter where they hide, we will track them down and seek to bring them to the United States to face justice.
Dana Boente -
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
Gary Hume
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I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.
David Lynch The Platters -
By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred.
Wendy Shalit -
My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish -
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
Oliver Tambo -
Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.
Barry Lyga -
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