“Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.” ActingGoneMinutesPaintingTenBathroomTissuesPainting A Picture Author:Shelley Winters
“The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.” ArtCareersGoneSubjectsPaintingHonorPhotographyTraditionAimRemainsEverydayPortraitsCordelia Book:On photography Source: On photography
“The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.” JoySongGoneVirtueBloodPaintingMastersFineColdPaint Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.” TwoLastsHouseSidesHoursAttentionGonePiecesImpossibleStreetsCarPaintingShopsCracksAbandonedNew OrleansRottingMattresses Author:Banksy
“I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.” GonePaintingInvolvedRhythmParis Author:Patti Smith
“It is an unfortunate fact that great and foolish excess can come into prices of common stocks in the aggregate. They are valued partly like bonds, based on roughly rational projections of use value in producing future cash. But they are also valued partly like Rembrandt paintings, purchased mostly because their prices have gone up, so far.” FactsUseValuesCommonGonePaintingFoolishRationalExcessCashUnfortunateProjection Author:Charlie Munger
“People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go back to painting. I'm sick of all this photography and video. There's so much of it, it's almost annoying.” PeopleTryingNextGonePaintingPhotographySickVideoAnnoyingAlways TryingGroovy Author:Cindy Sherman
“I bought a painting in Madrid on my first trip there too and a lot of people say, 'Well it's not the greatest painting' and I say, 'It is to me.' OK, you can look at a beautiful painting and say, 'That's beautiful' but to me, it feels warmer to fill my home with pictures of friends and family and paintings of places I've gone. That's what I want to come home to.” PeopleWantFeelsFirstsWellsLooksHomeBeautifulGonePaintingComing HomeFamily And FriendsMadridBeautiful Paintings Author:George Clooney
“There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.” WantTryingLooksStatesMovingDesireInterestingGoneObjectsPaintingLike YouEgoConceptsMuseumsAestheticLive Your LifeObserversHarmonious Author:Zack Snyder
“Whether it's films or painting or music or writing a book, the greatest experience is being able to express yourself and what you've gone through, trying to figure out a way to make it into something that's artistic that people can connect with.” PeopleWayWritingTryingBookAbleFilmGoneFiguresPaintingArtisticWriting A BookExpress Yourself Author:Rob Reiner