Charles Dickens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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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.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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Sunlight is painting.
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I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!
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Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.
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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.
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
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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.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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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.
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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.
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Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate, gentle, and feminine, until Angels are shown as androgynous or even distinctly female.
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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.
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Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more difficult.
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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
