Best painting & ceilings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".”

“As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming cups in endless variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls, decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing.”

Age Failing Sky Painting Source Wall Offers Band Mountain Endless Cups Variety Generous Enjoyment Glorious Halls Host Ceilings

Book:The American Wilderness: In the Words of John Muir

Source: The American Wilderness: In the Words of John Muir

“Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.”

Made Space Changed Painting Lows Bigger Studios Ceilings Horizontal

Author:James Rosenquist

“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source: The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall

“When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.”

Trying Painting Difficulty Paint Finished Remove Ceilings Sleeves Chapel Sistine Chapel

Author:Francois Cavanna

“A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite - it should look inside of us. When I put them in the middle of the room, I attach the paintings at the top to the ceiling and on the bottom to the floor. I prefer this to just hanging them from the ceiling because it creates a place in a space, like a wall.”

Should Looks Space Rooms Middle Painting Wall Window Opposites Bottom Ceilings

Author:Pierre Soulages

“In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.”

Humor Funny House Rooms Painting Ceilings Upstairs

Author:Steven Wright

“When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.”

Thinking Men Kids Jobs Artist Painting Beard Ceilings Chapel Leonardo Sistine Chapel

Author:Noel Fielding

“The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.”

Kind Long Ideas Space Interesting Objects Painting Wall Over It Expanding Ceilings Space Between Interesting Ideas

Author:Robert Barry

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