“For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.” FilmHouseWaitingTelevisionPaintingTheaterTablesCoffeeRingsReachingServingSurvivingBrassWaiting Tables Author:Kate Walsh
“When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.” WantedFatherHouseGrowing UpGrowingTalentPaintingPaintCornersPainterBoredKnocking Author:Markus Zusak
“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king” KnowsMenWayWantLooksIdeasCountryRunningPastHouseKnow HowGenerationsPaintingRevolutionKingsGardenArmyFactoriesRegimesEstatesPointingMistressSouvenirsCountry Houses Author:Peter Weiss
“When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.” WayHouseWalksTreeSubjectsRocksPaintingConceptsLandscapeVisualsDesirableSnapshots Author:John French Sloan
“Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw.” StillsSelfLightHousePowerfulPaintingShotsSightMirrorsVariousBedroomPortraitsBathroomLitCatchingBulbsLight BulbSelf PortraitMorbidity Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon
“The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live (Washington Square, New York, fh) although it's no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.” MindLongIdeasNightHouseRoomsCitiesStreetsNew YorkParticularPaintingLong TimeImpressionSquaresInteriorsGlimpseSynthesisCity StreetsStreets At Night Author:Edward Hopper
“My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word snob comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.” MindLittlesBookCountryFactsHouseInterestNumbersPositionPaintingSmartGardenDressesTrainImmenseCuisineSnobTapestryPretty WomanCountry Houses Author:Frank Crowninshield
“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 don't collect art at all. I'm fascinated by art. I receive a lot of presents. My house is full of things, but I am not a collector; it's just that people I work for, and friends, give me a lot of things. There are pictures all over the walls, sculptures, mobiles and paintings. I am embarrassed because I wonder what I should do with them.” PeopleGivingShouldArtHouseWonderPaintingWallGive MeFascinatedEmbarrassedSculptureCollectors Author:Peter Lindbergh
“In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.” HumorFunnyHouseRoomsPaintingCeilingsUpstairs Author:Steven Wright
“As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.” ThinkingChildrenProblemLyingArtistHouseGrowing UpRecordsGrowingPaintingProductsSolveFinishedVisibleAdmirationExposedDefiniteChildren Growing UpGrowing Children Author:Robin G. Collingwood
“If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting and dip that in a bucket of blood, and then just flick your wrist. You'll get this great speckled splash of blood, and it will cost you nothing.” IfsWantHouseBloodPaintingHorrorCostSixWideInchesBrushesWristsBucketsDip Author:Bruce Campbell
“If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.” IfsAbleHouseMillionsPaintingScreensPresidentialSunsetGuestsAirplanePortraitsStampsRenaissanceReproductionSkiersPainting A Picture Author:Bill Gates
“Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no shame in it.” KindDiesHouseFirePaintingLateApproachShamePlasticSurgeryPlastic Surgery Author:Dana Gould
“I tell a lot of interesting stories and talk about my background and have a lot of fun. We have a lot of pictures. They actually came to my house and shot me painting my toenails and doing dishes. But I never really do the dishes.” StoriesHouseFunInterestingPaintingShotsBackgroundsDishesInteresting StoriesToenails Author:Carmen Electra
“I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.” JobsHouseLostCareersPainting Author:John Dufresne
“I like purple too. I looked up color psychology before doing any house painting, because I was curious what the colors I like mean. And purple is very royal and creative.” MeanHouseCreativePsychologyColorPaintingCuriousRoyalPurple Author:Paul Dano
“Being here by the ocean in Malibu. Living in this beautiful house that we built, that took so long to build. Being in my art studio, painting. Packing my bags tomorrow to go home to Kauai where we have a house. Which all sounds very grand, and I suppose it is, in some respects, but nothing comes from nothing. It all comes from hard work.” LongArtHardHomeBeautifulHouseSoundPaintingHard WorkTomorrowOceanBuiltStudiosBagsPackingMalibu Author:Pierce Brosnan
“I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.” KindHousePaintingGrewGrew UpLandscaping Author:Miles Teller
“I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack. He had an amazing collection. I didn't know people painted abstractly, I thought I was just doing something wholeheartedly.” PeopleKnowsHouseSawsPaintingAbstractCollectionsWholeheartedlyAbstract Painting Author:Dennis Hopper