Bernard Berenson Quotes

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.

Bernard Berenson

• Painting
• Sole Source
• Enchantments

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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
  • Home
  • Challenge
  • Painting

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• 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
  • Artist
  • Painting
  • See

• 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
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Loved

• He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Painting

• I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • School
  • Art

• 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
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• 'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'

  

  Banksy
  • Pretty
  • Progress
  • Painting

• The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Study

• There's no indication or hint about the material world in my painting. No, I don't paint about the world. Everybody else is painting about the world. That's enough.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • World
  • Painting

• So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Feeling
  • Air
  • Painting

• I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Good
  • Great
  • Art

• My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • School
  • True
  • High

• Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Night

• When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Alone

• There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• I really believed Obama when he spoke in 2008, but I remember watching his victory speech after this last election and it was the same speech. Exactly the same speech. I felt like he didn't even believe it anymore. He seemed to be tired of saying the same thing.

  

  Andrew Dominik
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Tired

• Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

  

  Nina Easton
  • Politics
  • Mistakes
  • Media

• It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.

  

  William H. Macy
  • People
  • Character
  • Acting

• The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Future
  • City
  • Present

• You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Strong
  • Cool
  • Cold

• In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Painting
  • Sole Source
  • Enchantments