Painted Quotes

• I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Imagination
  • Exercise
  • Sad

• I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Interested

• When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Painting
  • Bottom
  • Finished

• If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Wrote
  • Painted
  • Composed

• Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past, and I quickly looked again. This boat appeared to be manned by four skeletons. Their cheek bones stood out like knots, their ribs were clearly defined as if they were painted on. Every leg and arm muscle showed as taut as steel cabling. Four pairs of deep-set eyes peered at us, conveying 'the look.' The four men who were rowing that shell were a special breed of oarsmen known as 'lightweights'.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Boat
  • Rowing
  • Ribs

• The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Canvas
  • Painted
  • Drew

• I sort of feel that the role of a portrait in society is to represent the sitters, we see paintings of Shakespeare and we believe that it is what he looked like, well maybe a little older, fatter and with a higher hairline. I guess it would be cool if the portraits that were painted really did look like the sitter or expressed some sort of emotion that gave the viewers in the future a sense of the sitter's pathos at the time it was painted.

  

  David Kassan
  • Shakespeare
  • Represent
  • Portrait

• Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.

  

  Socrates
  • Show
  • Flattery
  • Armor

• The devil is not as black as he is painted.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Black
  • Painted

• Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in the brook; The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers; The song of birds amid the bowers; The crystal of the azure seas; The music of the southern breeze; And, over all, the blessed sun, Telling of halcyon days begun.

  

  David Macbeth Moir
  • Music
  • Blessed
  • Breath

• That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Admiration
  • Painted
  • Reported

• The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Aim
  • Impressions
  • Fugitive

• You wouldn't get rid of the Mona Lisa just because someone painted another picture of a woman smiling.

  

  Clive Rowe
  • Woman
  • Smiling
  • Rid

• If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century.

  

  Catherine Martin
  • Chinese
  • Wallpaper
  • Long Island

• If I were writing about Picasso and pointed out that he painted women because he was interested in the female form, that would seem like an obvious point. I don't know why people revolt when I point out that Rockwell painted the male figure and was interested in it.

  

  Deborah Solomon
  • Interested
  • Obvious
  • Revolt

• Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the shimmering shadows the nuances of color that he transformed into the invisible core of his silent symphony.

  

  Elie Faure
  • Air
  • Shadows
  • Symphony

• The South we belong to is a good country, a valiant country; it always has valor, and it has had industry and thrift. Our house is painted, our grass is green. For those of us who bend our backs and put our shoulders to to the wheel, the South is still Canaan land; it is milk and honey.

  

  Ben Robertson
  • Country
  • Industry
  • Honey

• Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.'

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Model

• It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Belief
  • Christianity
  • Exist

• The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Grew
  • Painted
  • Shades

• All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Mother
  • Aunt
  • Grandfather

• My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Statement
  • My Work
  • Permissiom

• The heaviest burden of all is the presence of the war and the increasing superficiality. It gives me incessantly the impression of a bloody carnival.. .I am now like the whores, I once painted in his Berlin-time: the merest brushstroke now, gone tomorrow. Nonetheless I am still trying to put my thoughts in order and, from all the confusion, create an image of time, which is my task, after all.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Image
  • Impression
  • Confusion

• For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Read
  • Autobiography
  • Painted

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