“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.” MeanDoeStoriesFormLostBornNovelCenturyFashionPaintingTrendsRhyme Author:Pat Conroy
“I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.” ArtWantedJobsLostPaintingFaultsCustomersSalesman Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in!” DoneLostMistakeMorningStupidPaintingTwentiesRageMoodSessionFoulStupid Mistake Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.” PersonsFeelingsFormLostGivenInfluenceFiguresPaintingPsychologicalCupsLandscapeContinuingCanvasLoaded Author:Richard Diebenkorn
“Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.” IfsThinkingFeelsYearsTimeLostHalfPaintingAwfulLeonardoMona Lisa Author:E. J. Hughes
“I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do something outside your skill set; your skills have to catch up with the things you see in your head. But it's important to make all of those paintings, even the failed ones.” TryingImportantReasonSeemsHappensLostPaintingSkillsVariousPhasesCompass Author:Joe Bradley
“If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.” IfsGivingWellsLooksReasonCharacterMightWould BeLostViewsQualityVisionTreePaintingKingsOriginalsPhotographIndividualityForestsNo ReasonRepresentationDefectsGrandeurThorns Author:Calvin Coolidge
“Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience” HumansSelfBodyCoursesLostResultsSupportRecordsObjectsPaintingWallDevelopmentFunctionCamerasSurfaceAriseSoleViewersHuman BodyExpressivePictorialIncorporating Author:Gunter Brus
“My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.” PeopleThinkingWellsChildrenI CanPainThreeLostWishPaintingMessagesSeriesHorribleRevolutionaryFulfilledHorrible Life Author:Frida Kahlo
“[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.” LostPaintingSonKingsNewsKingdomsRoyaltyNaplesPainting A Picture Author:Horace Walpole
“The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing. Whatever that is, it is what I want to do.” WantGivingFilmLostProcessPaintingCreatingGive MeDrawingThings In LifeJust BeingCreating SomethingPainting And Drawing Author:Ellar Coltrane
“If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!” IfsWorldWantAbleFilmLostHoursPowerfulWonderPaintingToolsStaring Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.” WritingMeanDoeArtBookStoriesFormHumanityFightingLostLanguageBornPowerfulNovelCenturyMovementPaintingSpeciesRelatedComplexityMost PowerfulTrendsRhymeContinuitySingularityPowerful Words Author:Pat Conroy
“Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.” ThinkingKnowsMeanSometimesCoursesLostPainting Author:David Hockney
“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