Best wells & painting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.”

“If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.”

Ifs Wells Has Beens Painting Models Fats Fabulous Kate Moss Paintbrush Rubens

Author:Dawn French

“It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.”

Men Wells Faces Artist He Man Painting One Day Models Paint Features Canvas Portraits Portraiture

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?”

Wells Kind May Done Eye Answers Figures Painting Paint Drawing Wit Public Eye Catalogues Figure Painting

Book:the works of thomas hood

Source: the works of thomas hood

“Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.”

Ifs Wells Impossible Subjects Painting Jokes Green

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.”

Men Wells Action Poor Results Figures Produce Painting Masters Embrace Fortuitous

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.”

Ifs Wells Painting Paint True Things

Book:Islands in the stream

Source: Islands in the stream

“Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.”

Men Trying Wells Ideas Mines Painting Skills Canvas Brushes

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?”

People Wells Difficult Interesting Imagine Painting Contrary Imagine That Comrade

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.”

Men Wells Young Painting Models Draws Young Man Over It Curtains

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.”

Ifs Knows Wells Enough Certain Perfect Painting Perfection Indifferent Great Success

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

Ifs Wells Might Understanding Painting Paint

Book:50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship

Source: 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship

“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

“Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.”

Wells Different Done Work Painting Labor Manuals Manual Labor

Author:George Grosz

“I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.”

Firsts Believe Wells Artist Subjects Objects Painting

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.”

Humans Wells Heart Done Moving Emotion Records Effects Emotional Painting Moved Ill Landscape Human Heart Splendour Landscape Painting

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.”

Thinking Knows Want Wells Term Painting Observation Initials

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.”

Years Wells Lasts Five Generations Painting Hundred Twenties Immortality Thirty Tombstone

Author:Robert Genn

“I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the natural world. I want to soak it up, to understand it as well as I can, and to absorb it. And then I'd like to put it together and express it in my paintings. This is the way I want to dedicate my work.”

World Way Want Wells I Can Earth Together Natural Rich Painting Planets Handsome Natural World Planet Earth

Author:Robert Bateman

“Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.”

Wells Moving Painting Backwards Tense Rough Times Present Tense

Author:Joe Bradley

“Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is like seeing a landscape or, better, a richly realized painting of a landscape dotted with figures. But that would leave out their music, which would be a loss. This is a wise and graceful book by a well-traveled woman who knows how to confront deep feeling and frame it to make it all the more intense.”

“When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.”

People Writing Wells Acting Painting Drawing Portraiture Painting And Drawing

Author:Antony Sher

“A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.”

Way Wells I Can Book Home Stuff Painting Comfortable Filled Fishes Sculpture Furniture Lamps

Author:Frank Gehry

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