El Greco Quotes

...Michelangelo was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.

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• I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Anger
  • Paint
  • Someone

• Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Words
  • Speak
  • Paint

• Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • Paint
  • Before

• I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Running
  • Paint
  • Drive

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• Paint the essential character of things.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Art
  • Character
  • Paint

• I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Girl
  • Paint
  • Instagram

• I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Thinking

• God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Work
  • God
  • Earth

• No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Paint
  • Disenchanted

• Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Knowledge

• Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Paint
  • Underwear

• I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • World
  • Picture
  • Paint

• When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • History
  • Alone
  • Teach

• I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

  

  Jacques-Louis David
  • Future
  • Lies
  • Paint

• I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

  

  Burt Young
  • Paint

• I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.

  

  John Chamberlain
  • Believe
  • Car
  • Common

• If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Picture
  • Goal
  • Paint

• When you're experiencing peace, it's coming from within you; you're 'doing' peace and this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love, happiness, contentment, well-being come from within. Nothing external needs to change for you to have what you want.....If you want to be happier - be happier. If you want to be more relaxed - relax. If you want more friends - be friendly. Sounds simple. It is.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Friends
  • True
  • Peace

• I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Marketing

• My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Parents
  • Actor
  • Director

• I love analogue tape and I love digital, they both have pluses and minuses and I don't really feel like I have to use one or the other. I love digital because it's really great for songwriting because you can just cut and move choruses around and pull chunks of songs. It's really easy to hear quickly "Oh, maybe the arrangement should be like this."

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • Songs
  • I Love
  • Move

• ...Michelangelo was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.

  

  El Greco
  • Paint
  • Good Men
  • Michelangelo