William C. Wright Quotes
My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.William C. Wright
Quotes to Explore
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Walter Scott -
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 -
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 -
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
Sam Snead
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Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.
Fat Joe -
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 -
My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock -
Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.
Olivia De Havilland -
I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
Patrick Swayze
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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 -
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
Dag Hammarskjold -
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 -
RADIO – DADA DIX whose monumental painting 'Barricade' now lost created such a sensation in Dresden
Otto Dix -
'Time was,' he said, 'when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light.'
Charles Dickens -
The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
Queen Latifah -
Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
Karin Fossum -
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
Eric Allin Cornell -
a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
Vincent Van Gogh -
My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
William C. Wright