Painted Quotes

• A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.

  

  Saul Steinberg
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Painted

• When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty!

  

  Ernesto Illy
  • Coffee
  • Tongue
  • Tasty

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

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Read
  • Autobiography
  • Painted

• Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out.

  

  Morris Graves
  • Ideas
  • Painted
  • Compositions

• I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Meaning
  • Images
  • Painted

• Jesus Christ used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.

  

  Elizabeth Zandile Tshele
  • Eyes
  • Jesus Christ
  • Painted

• Dominic tooled up five minutes later in a ten-year-old Nissan pickup truck that had been painted a non-standard khaki, dipped in dried mud up to the wheel arches and then randomly smacked with a sledgehammer to give it that Somali Technical look. I found myself checking to see if there was a mount for a fifty-caliber machine gun in the back.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Gun
  • Truck
  • Checking

• Throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

  

  Nancy Etcoff
  • History
  • Bodies
  • Painted

• Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges.

  

  Ari Shapiro
  • Artist
  • Garden
  • Painted

• The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

  

  Alice Neel
  • Freedom
  • Place
  • Painted

• All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

  

  William Blake
  • Drunk
  • Pictures
  • Groat

• What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.

  

  Andrew Neel
  • Remember
  • Atmosphere
  • Painted

• Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.

  

  Evan Mandery
  • Picture
  • Sing
  • Give Up

• I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

  

  Paul Emsley
  • Painted
  • Bulls
  • Symbolism

• Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

  

  Bill Lear
  • Painted

• No one painted a more accurate picture of military depredation than Vergil. Inspired though he was by the Latin spirit and by his pride in Rome, he nevertheless glorified Rome's true mission as one of providing the world with the rules of peace and justice.

  

  Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
  • Justice
  • Mission
  • Depredation

• The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Chance
  • Trouble
  • Devil

• I love to paint and beautify the most unexpected of places - I've painted everything from doorways to trains but have always wanted to do something really huge and different.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Different
  • I Love
  • Painted

• I painted it in Berlin self-portrait 'The Drinker', while screaming military convoys were passing beneath my window day and night.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Screaming
  • Painted
  • Berlin

• On the opposite page, there was a poem. It described how beauty and truth mattered more than anything else. They were the same thing. But it didn't matter how pretty you painted the world.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Truth
  • Poem
  • Painted

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