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“Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.”

Acting Gone Minutes Painting Ten Bathroom Tissues Painting A Picture

Author:Shelley Winters

“Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!”

Years Wells Results Progress Changed Painting One Day Ten Yellow Palette

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand.”

Ifs Art Issues Painting Easier Ten Hundred Absolutely Nothing

Author:Joe Bradley

“It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.”

Painting Ten Holes

Author:Edvard Munch

“I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New York and saw some of my graffiti. He was impressed and asked if I sold canvases. I really had not made any canvases of my graffiti work yet, but told him I could make one for him. He then commissioned me to make ten paintings and put on my first art show. Between the sold out show and the cops chasing after me it created a lot of media and I've been doing really well since then.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Art Made Real Shows Guy Saws Media New York Painting Ten Meat Investors Cop Impressed Estates Chasing Graffiti Packing Sold Out

Author:Alec Monopoly

“Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.”

Book Done Reading Painting Ten Eating Sitting Chairs Cents Sitting In A Chair

Author:Susan Rothenberg

“Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.”

Form Darkness Movement Color Painting Ten Concerned Substance Brightness Remoteness

Book:Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists