“I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.” WantKindSaidTodayActorsSoundStupidPaintingConsciousPainterPainting A Picture Author:Franka Potente
“When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.” MayStillsPaintingTechniqueMeatFlatsThrillPainting A Picture Book:Black paintings Source: Black paintings
“Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?” ShouldPaintingGardenSettingSettingsRememberedPainting A Picture Author:Beatrix Farrand
“Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.” MenDoeAbleFormOpinionPaintingJudgingListeningOughtFaultsRefuseJudgementPainting A Picture Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“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
“Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind.” MindJobsColorPaintingPainterPainting A Picture Author:Charlie Day
“I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.” IfsThinkingKnowsHappensHalfPaintingPainterBotherPainting A Picture Author:Lucian Freud
“I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.” PeopleWantKindArtThreeLinesLevelsAwarenessPaintingAmbitionUnderstoodPraiseCriticsBurningConfusedSignificancePlasticFluidModernismPainting A Picture Author:Arnold Friberg
“You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer's head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky.” WayArtBigsLyingDarkPaintingMastersArt IsBiggerIsolatedViewersPainting A PictureDark Art Author:Bill Whittle
“Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships.” WantMindGreaterPaintingFoundationPainting A Picture Author:Mary Morrissey
“Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.” ArtistEmotionEmotionalPaintingPainting A Picture Author:Wale
“[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
“Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.” NeedsArtFormPaintingWrestlingPainting A Picture Author:Hulk Hogan
“The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you're describing, when you're setting the scene and everything. It's like you're painting a picture, so details are very important. Also, the music gotta be right. The music can really set the tone for the story and let you know what the story is gonna be about, but definitely, it's the vibe in the place where you at and the detail.” KnowsLittlesDoeImportantStoriesPaintingLike YouSceneElementsDetailsSettingSettingsToneDescribingGood StoryPainting A Picture Author:Big Boi
“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.” LifeArtPainLife IsKnowledgeLearningPaintingManagementPainting A Picture Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.” WritingIdeasEyeSongSilenceMagicTearsPaintingWindCreatingSongwritingClosestBlankSongwritersCanvasSinger SongwritersBlank CanvasPainting A Picture Author:Rodney Atkins
“Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!” PeopleIfsKnowsArtSaidRealFeelingsArtistCareersCreativePaintingPaintSakeEstablishmentCanvasThey SaidSentimentalInnovativeBourgeoisHideousGrotesqueCreative WorkBrandedIllustratorsReal ArtistsPainting A Picture Author:Bill Bonner
“Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.” BelieveActingCreativePaintingBe CreativeRelevancePainting A Picture Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.
“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
“I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.” BelieveI BelieveActingPaintingI Believe InPainting A Picture Author:J. B. Smoove