Painting Cabinets Quotes

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders. ~ Brian Selznick

Maybe we're all cabinets of wonders. ~ Brian Selznick

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Matte or satin sheen scuffs up very easily. So, unless you have it professionally done, definitely paint shelves or cabinets with something with a higher sheen. ~ Emily Henderson

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities. ~ Anna Journey

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. ~ George Eliot

Painting is the subject of painting. ~ Joseph Raffael

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. ~ Damien Hirst

Painting is ... a richer language than words ... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves. ~ Jean Dubuffet

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself. ~ William Baziotes

Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a
" "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying. ~ Norton Juster

Writing is painting with words! ~ Avijeet Das

Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion. ~ Grace Hartigan

I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting. ~ Scott McClanahan

Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer. ~ Gerhard Richter

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again. ~ Chris Martin

After I see a painting, I go into a room, I close my eyes and I slowly escape into the beauty of the painting. I reflect on the painting, the nuances of the artwork, it's theme, mood and highlights -until the magic of the painting flashes before me. ~ Srinidhi.R

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets. ~ Dolly Parton

I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting ... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting. ~ Andy Warhol

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won't see it. ~ Ivan Eyre

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting. ~ Fernando Botero

Painting is silent poetry,
and poetry is painting that speaks. ~ Plutarch

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting. ~ Melissa Brown

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting ... every generation must start again afresh. ~ Maurice De Vlaminck

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content. ~ Robert Motherwell

No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting. ~ Ron Parker

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting. ~ Terry Crews

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. ~ David Hockney

E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!" The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the last
cabinet, the row was becoming F as in Falling File Cabinets, G as in Go the Other Way! and H as in How
in the World Are We Going to Escape? ~ Lemony Snicket

I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked. ~ Mike Mignola

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light. ~ Eugene Delacroix

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. ~ Ernst Haas

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color. ~ Joseph Raffael

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting. ~ Joe Bradley

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively. ~ Chris Ofili

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? ~ Edvard Munch

For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour. ~ Katherine Bernhardt

I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk

Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting ... ~ Titian

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines. ~ Edvard Munch

There is a famous painting, Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper. I am in love with that painting. Sometimes, I think everyone is like the people in that painting, everyone lost in their own private universes of pain or sorrow or guilt, everyone remote and unknowable. The painting reminds me of you. It breaks my heart. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized. ~ David Hockney

A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting. ~ Marcel Duchamp

Illustrating is more about communicating specific ideas to a reader. Painting is more like pure science, more about the act of painting. ~ Shaun Tan

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. ~ Romare Bearden

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting. ~ David Salle

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes. ~ Francis Bacon

Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie. ~ Julian Schnabel

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary ... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting. ~ Joshua L. Goldberg

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years. ~ Joe Bradley

When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids. ~ Johnny Depp

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth. ~ John Singer Sargent

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself. ~ James Franco

Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas. ~ Walter Darby Bannard

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. ~ Jackson Pollock

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring. ~ Rene Magritte

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. ~ David Lynch

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. ~ Richard Diebenkorn

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color. ~ Joseph Raffael

Hi, I'm not answering my phone right now because I'm building kitchen cabinets at 111 Main Street. I'm putting my heart and soul into these cabinets so I won't be returning calls until I'm finished with the job. Please know I will give the same attention and care to your work, as well. If you need to talk to me feel free to come by 111 Main Street during my lunch break at noon. ~ Jon Gordon

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around. ~ Captain Beefheart

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. ~ Paul Cezanne

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god. ~ Rembrandt

The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift. ~ Bernard Ingham

You bring to a painting your own experience. ~ Jacob Lawrence

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility. ~ Jack Levine

Every picture one paints involves not painting others. ~ Robert Motherwell

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had ~ Francis Bacon

I think I am beginning to learn something about painting. ~ Titian

My painting does not come from the easel. ~ Jackson Pollock

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. ~ Jackson Pollock

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting. ~ Robert Genn

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. ~ Winston Churchill

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words. ~ A.S. Byatt

The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body. ~ Lucian Freud

Writing and Painting are the same for me. ~ Peter Malkin

I painted myself out of my painting. ~ Milton Resnick

Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics ... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out. ~ Philip Guston

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss. ~ John Berger

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle. ~ Winston Churchill

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
[On painting and fighting look aloof.] ~ George Herbert

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting. ~ William Scott

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near. ~ Kazuaki Tanahashi

Painting is a state of being. ~ Jackson Pollock

A painting is not made to be sniffed. ~ Rembrandt

A painting is life and a painting is death ... the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living. ~ Ivan Albright

I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to. ~ Lawrence Weiner

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture? ~ Beatrix Farrand

Is not really a system of painting but a method of internal investigation. It is not the philosophy of painting but painting as philosophy. ~ Octavio Paz

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. ~ Willem De Kooning

I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong ... ~ Georges Braque

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. ~ John Dewey

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction. ~ Mary Beth McKenzie

Painting is a jeu d'esprit. ~ Pablo Picasso

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing. ~ Rembrandt

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting. ~ Dogen