Painting Quotes
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
Gail Carson Levine
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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.
Captain Beefheart
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
P. J. Harvey
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow
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I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
Rafael Moneo
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
Natasha Bedingfield
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A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.
Paula Patton
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
Eddie Redmayne
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It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh’s stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.
Antonin Artaud
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Ikue Mori
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
M. F. Husain
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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.
Rachel Kushner
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
Gary Hume
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The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.
David Luiz
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Whenever I go on holiday, I like to time travel and imagine what it must have been like 500 years ago. I love the Tuscan landscape, which is reminiscent of a Claude Lorrain painting.
Jools Holland
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We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.
Olaus Murie
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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
