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“Michelangelo's girlfriend, who said to Angelo, Forget the paint - let's put a mirror on the ceiling. Never got a dinner!”

Said Forget Mirrors Paint Dinner Girlfriend Ceilings

Author:Red Buttons

“Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)”

Ifs Whole Eye Sun Creation Painting Ideals Cameras Paint Poetic Flash Describing Whole Picture Camera Obscura

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.”

Fool Paint Academy Imbeciles Kodak

Book:Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts

Source: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts

“Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.”

Looks War Beautiful Girl Empty Paint Lazy Makeup Laziness Canvas Bleak No Makeup Empty Canvas War Paint

Author:Dane Cook

“You might be a redneck if your vehicle has a two-tone paint job - primer red and primer gray.”

Ifs Two Might Jobs Red Paint Tone Gray Vehicle Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If Redneck Humor

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“You might be a redneck if you've ever hauled a can of paint to the top of a water tower to defend your sister's honor.”

Ifs Might Water Honor Paint Towers Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.”

My Own Paint Copying

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.”

Use Actors Directors Bigger Paint Brushes Bigger Picture

Author:Eric Balfour

“I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique."”

World Trying Paint I Realized Magazines Feminine Editors Threatened Threatening Mystique Feminine Mystique

Author:Betty Friedan

“I was definitely scared of fashion growing up just because I didn't want people to think I was gay. But now that I'm out, I feel like it's such a personal journey for me that I'm going on every single day where I feel more and more confident and comfortable to wear the clothes that I want to wear, and to have the interest that I have, and to paint my nails if I want to.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Feels Interest Growing Up Growing Journey Fashion Gay Comfortable Clothes Paint Scared Nails Personal Journey

Author:Troye Sivan

“Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.”

Kind Wanted Actors Keys Becoming Lows Paint Artistic Low Key

Author:Norman Reedus

“As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they'd provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.”

Ifs I Can Hands Wanted Remember Used Bits Interest Creative Fashion Paint Lists Camps

Author:Marc Jacobs

“When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.”

Thinking Long Art Fun Travel Draws Paint Funny Travel

Author:Arne Jacobsen

“And my daughter's too smart. She gets it watching TV. She gets it. She's five. She gets it. I... I have a smart kid; I don't want a smart kid. I'm gonna start feedin' her lead paint chips just to bring her down.”

Want Kids Five Tvs Smart Daughter Paint My Daughter Chips Watching Tv Smart Kid

Author:Christopher Titus

“I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.”

Feels Littles Doe I Can Done Written Paint Stranger Pictures Of Myself

Author:Pippa Middleton

“If I had a Volkswagon Beetle. I'd paint the front to resemble Glenn Langdon in War Of The Colossal Beast. Why? Two words: The Ladies.”

Ifs Two War Fronts Paint Beast Colossal Beetles

Author:Dana Gould

“I talked about everything, man. I've always written material that everyone can laugh at. I talked about growing up. I did a lot of physical comedy. That was my thing. I was a physical comedian. I did anything and everything from running on a treadmill, I can paint a picture on stage of anything.”

Men I Can Running Laughing Growing Up Comedy Growing Written Stage Materials Paint Comedian Treadmills Anything And Everything Physical Comedy

Author:J. B. Smoove

“Body cameras help to record what happens. It may not be the golden ticket, the golden egg, the end-all-fix-all, but it helps to paint a picture of what happens during a police stop.”

May Ends Helping Body Happens Records Police Cameras Paint Golden Eggs Tickets Golden Eggs

Author:Clementa C. Pinckney

“Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine mist until it's just lonely particles floating in the air, waiting to be plastered in place. And what comes of it all, the design on the shirt at the end of the day, usually isn't much to see. I suspect that whoever he is, wakes up in the morning and wonders what he ever saw in it.”

Ends Guy Waiting Wonder Morning Saws Air Design Color Fine Lonely Wake Up Paint Shirts Parks The End Of The Day Suspects Floating T Shirt Amusement Particles Mist Spray Amusement Parks

Author:Ian Caldwell

“Who can keep us from recreating our life as we would like it to be-as it could, and should be? No one but ourselves can keep us from being artists, rather than marching forward like mere consumers, corporate robots, sheep. No one but ourselves can keep us from dancing with life instead of goose-stepping. In every moment recognizing our own creative imagination, the living picture we paint on the canvas of our lives. Everything is imagination. And imagination is freedom, but it can also be conditioning, bondage.”

“I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.”

Needs Believe I Believe Rich Duty Aspect And Love Paint Magnificent Hope And Love Gaiety

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To board a train into his mind would give me a ride into dark adventure.”

Giving Feels Mind Doe Dark Adventure Give Me Train Paint Boards Hiding Portraits Kenneth Hiding Something

Author:Tennessee Williams

“Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.”

Thinking Feels Trying Stills Sometimes Hard Whole Body Faces Laughing Paper Comfortable Paint Edges Giants Bags Paper Bags Straight Edge

Author:Lady Gaga

“You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell.”

Knows Stories Vision Sells Paint Metrics

Author:Mitch Harper

“Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction, drug dealing, and drug abuse as being a specifically a Black issue.”

Black White Study Issues Drug Abuse Paint Addiction Substance California Pregnant Wire Drug Addiction Drug Addict Abusers Drug Abuse Substance Abuse

Author:Ishmael Reed

“I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.”

Intellectual Paint

Author:Joni Mitchell

“When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs talent and expertise. But to be successful in his endeavor, he also needs to have the passionate feeling that he wants, at all costs, to create a work of art which, in his head, constantly demands to be accomplished. The same also applies to developing board games or card games.”

“I had to find a way to paint abstractly, which is what I wanted to do. I couldn't forget Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, I mean that was the basis.”

Way Mean Wanted Forget Bases Paint Kandinsky

Author:Frank Stella

“You can write a 1st paragraph that continues the same thought you expressed in your headline. If you stop a reader with a headline about house paint, you can be sure of at least one thing about that reader: He wants more info about house paint. You will not lose him as long as you continue to give him what he wants.”

Ifs Want Giving Writing Long House Loses One Thing Reader Paint Headlines Paragraph

Author:John Caples

“I do not paint nature. I am nature.”

Paint

Author:Jackson Pollock

“If she replaces her eyebrows with a Machiavellian triangle, paints her fingernails blue, and dyes her hair some color you'd see in a comic book it's not too attractive to me-because it's too familiar. Extremes aren't necessary. Even 'high fashion' frightens most men. When I have to wait in the dentist's office, I sometimes look at fashion magazines. To me, most of the models look like they have rickets or scoliosis of the spine. They look less like woman than caricatures.”

“I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.”

Thinking Way Wells Wanted Artist Happened Modern Movement Hero Paint Folks Rejected Vans My Hero Matisse

Author:Joni Mitchell

“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.”

Doe Play Earth Stars Color Keys Method Shining Paint

Author:Eberhard Arnold

“One paints with one's head, not one's hand.”

Hands Paint

Author:Michelangelo

“The media paint ugly pictures about you.”

Media Paint Ugly

Author:Kim Basinger

“I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.”

Ifs Looks Littles Stills Paint Compare Barns

Author:Dolly Parton

“People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of the work. But my starting point is always the language of painting itself and how that relates to the subject matter.”

People Language Black Painting Paint Complexity

Author:Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

“Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.”

Want Writing Sometimes Hands Tables Clean Paint

Author:Danny Fox

“I don't think of myself as a rebellious artist, a lot of people have said that about me because I came from Cornwall and choose to paint people in what they considered to be an urban style instead of Cornish landscapes. I've never agreed with them. It's bullshit.”

People Thinking Said Artist Style Paint Landscape Bullshit Urban Rebellious Cornwall

Author:Danny Fox

“The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.”

Problem Paint Ink Printing

Author:David Hockney

“If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from the story. It's like if a painter sees a beautiful scene and he paints it. If he's in his home it's not the same.”

Ifs Stories Home Inspiration Beautiful Scene Musician Paint Painter Soundtracks

Author:Claudio Simonetti

“I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling about? It's something that, songwriters just write songs. It's like an artist that paints. They paint what they feel. It's not, it's not about how many of these painting I'll sell it's just how they feel at the moment. And that's how I wrote "Stand By Me".”

Thinking Feels Writing Moments Feelings Artist Song Painting Sells Paint Songwriters Stand By Me

Author:Ben E. King

“I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.”

People Ends Painting Paint Selling Hobbies

Author:Grace Gealey

“Huge advances in clean energy technology are happening all the time. Solar and wind are booming. New ways to generate energy from our windows, the paint on our walls, and even our bike paths are being invented all the time. Technology is moving forward, but it needs to be moving forward faster.”

Way Needs Moving Energy Technology Path Wind Huge Wall Happenings Window Clean Paint Moving Forward Faster New Ways Bike Clean Energy

Author:Katharine Hayhoe

“Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.”

Writing Kind I Can Sometimes Creativity Imagine Essentials Draws Paint Joyful

Author:Zephyr Teachout

“People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.”

People Want Needs Feels Kind Whole Stories Care Stuff Paint Don't Care How You Feel Filters

Author:Glenn Frey

“My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.”

Use Process Fronts Window Paint Technique Painter Mess Artistic Pens Markers Backsides Artistic Process

Author:Chelsea Martin

“I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.”

Thinking World Ideas Reason Painting Conscious Paint Painter No Idea

Author:Jasper Johns

“I have a black Grandma and white Grandma. My white Grandma lives in Fort Lauderdale, paints, and teaches bridge. She's wonderful. My black Grandma, equally wonderful, is my neighbor across the street, Bobbie, who's always insisted that I call her Grandma, and honestly, over the years she's become a real Grandma to me.”

Years Real Black White Teach Wonderful Streets Paint Neighbor Honestly Bridges Grandma Forts

Author:Davy Rothbart

“It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I ever felt like I was helping someone paint. They had a very clear idea of what they wanted it to look like, sound like, be like. So, there was no operating outside the box. The only way to help him was to try to really be a part of his imagination and try to make it happen. He's a super kind and loving person. So, you wanted to help him. It just was none of my normal ways of helping a director work at all. So, it was a unique experience for me that way.”

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