Yves Klein Quotes
The essential of painting is that something, that 'ethereal glue', that intermediary product which the artist secretes with all his creative being and which he has to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial stuff of the painting.Yves Klein
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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 -
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 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 -
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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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 -
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 -
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Pablo Picasso -
My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock -
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
P. J. Harvey
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
P. J. Harvey -
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn -
I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
Kara Walker -
The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
Caio Fonseca
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I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.
Aaron Spelling -
I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.
Archy Ivan Marshall -
Never underestimate your talents, and try not to compare or wish for the talents of others. Focus on and accept the talents you have, and you will find great fulfillment in life.
Jane Powell -
Somebody is trying to kill all the kernel developers.
Linus Torvalds -
The essential of painting is that something, that 'ethereal glue', that intermediary product which the artist secretes with all his creative being and which he has to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial stuff of the painting.
Yves Klein