William Baziotes Quotes
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.William Baziotes
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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 -
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson -
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 -
Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
Rachel Kushner -
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
Quentin Blake -
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
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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 -
Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan -
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Samuel Butler -
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 -
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
P. J. Harvey -
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
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it was the period I think of as the age of the pillow.. .What I wanted to bring out - is that which cannot be measured - I wanted to bring out the tired movement in the eyelids - the lips must look as though they are whispering - she must look as though she is breathing - I want life - what is alive. on his painting 'The sick Child'
Edvard Munch -
A large vocabulary is like an artist having a big palette of colors. We don't have to use all the colors in a single painting, but it helps to be able to find just the right shade when we need it.
Anu Garg -
I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium.. .if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.
Lee Krasner -
So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D. -
The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
Carolina Herrera -
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
Donald Judd
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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.
Charles Dickens -
Dance is fun! It lifts the spirit, stringthens the body, and stimulates the mind.
Wayne Sleep -
Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
Alan Furst -
Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.
Alicia Keys -
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.
William Baziotes