Sayas Painting Quotes

It made as much sense as a black velvet painting of a beaver brushing its teeth with a tire iron. ~ Eric Lahti

Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so that the uniqueness and abundance attract people to it and delight the eye of the observer. I say that a narrative painting requires (depending on the scene), wherever the eye falls, a mixture of men of diverse appearances, of diverse ages and dress, combined together with women, children, dogs, horses, buildings, fields, and hills. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure. ~ Nathan Oliveira

Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red. ~ Kazimir Malevich

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure. ~ Stuart Pearson Wright

You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting. ~ Keren Ann

Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor. ~ Ben Schnetzer

You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own. ~ Wolfgang Beltracchi

The wall between writing and painting is just good grammar.

Moderation in moderation.

Fun is scary with a happy ending.

Just love. If love doesn't transform that which annoys you, it will be easier to tolerate. ~ Emily Thornton Calvo

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. ~ Paul Cezanne

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle. ~ Robert Merrill

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

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself. ~ Robert Rauschenberg

We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden. ~ Naomi Wolf

The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting. ~ Heinrich Heine

I'd rather sit next to Brian for two hours in a dark theater than have a wall painting party with Jackson Pollock ~ Jandy Nelson

I wore a purple dress--not my mother's finery this time, but something cheap that I didn't mind ruining--and I had painted my face to disguise it, with a thick diagonal stripe that covered all of one eye and most of the other. I had bound my hair back tightly, painting it blue to keep it in place. Without the currentshadows, I wouldn't look like the Cyra Noavek that the city of Voa knew.
Akos was dressed in black and green, but since he wasn't recognizable, he hadn't bothered with any disguise.
When he saw me, he stared. For a long time.
I knew how I looked. My face was not a relief to the eyes, the way the faces of uncomplicated people were; it was a challenge, like the blinding color of the currentstream. How I looked wasn't important, particularly as my appearance was always obscured by the shifting veins of the current. But it was strange to see him notice at all.
"Put your eyes back in your head, Kereseth," I said. "You're embarrassing yourself. ~ Veronica Roth

I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up. ~ Robert Bateman

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817) ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more satisfactory, still more emotionally exciting discovery that the theory is not quite right and has to be worked over again, very much as any other work of art-a painting, a sculpture has to be worked over in the interests of aesthetic perfection. So there is no scientist who is not to some extent worthy of being described as artist or poet. ~ Robert Watson-Watt

I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did. ~ Stefan Bachmann

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years. ~ Donald Judd

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting. ~ Robert Ryan

I FEEL NO SHAME ABOUT HAVING PAINTINGS BE AS GRANDIOSE AND RIDICULOUS AS POSSIBLE. ~ Laura Owens

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits. ~ Jamie Wyeth

All photographs are far more important than any painting. ~ Gerhard Richter

A painting is not made to be sniffed. ~ Rembrandt

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment. ~ Agnes Denes

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

Painting consists of long periods of minutes followed by short bursts of hours ~ Steven Brust

According to my figures I've only had 2500 pieces of ass but I've watched 12500 horse races, and if I have any advice to anybody, it's this: take up watercolor painting. ~ Charles Bukowski

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever. ~ Terry Pratchett

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. ~ Max Beckmann

I've come to appreciate cooking over the years. It's an art, I'm convinced of it, just as noble as painting or poetry. It's not appreciated simply because the product disappears so quickly ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain. ~ Giovanni Ribisi

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling. ~ Robert Motherwell

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting. ~ Robert Rauschenberg

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting. ~ Arnold Newman

Though painting borrows help indeed from colours ... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours ... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense. ~ Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl Of Shaftesbury

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account ... ~ Hiroko Sakai

Mary Cassatt's Painting #11: Lilacs in a Window, 1879 ~ Stanley Cesar

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. ~ Shailene Woodley

BARRY: Phwoar! This stuff shouldn't be available on the internet where anybody can see it.

GLENDA: Barry, what are you looking at?

BARRY: Philosophy. You should see some of the ideas floating around here.

GLENDA: As long as it's only philosophy.

BARRY: Only?! They come out with stuff that makes your hair stand on end. Look out there. What do you see?

GLENDA: I can see it's time to paint the fence.

BARRY: What fence?

GLENDA: Our fence. I don't expect you to paint next door's.

BARRY: There is no fence out there. We just think there is.

GLENDA: And I think it still needs painting.

BARRY: It's all in here. It's only the way we see things that makes them look as if they're out there. Actually everything is in our heads.

GLENDA: Barry, if you can go out there with a pot of paint and paint it, then it's out there.

BARRY: I hate it when you do that.

GLENDA: What?

BARRY: Make more sense than philosophy.

"The Second Stag Night of Doggy Wilkinson", Last of the Summer Wine", season 28 episode 1. ~ Roy Clarke

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. ~ Robert Hughes

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork. ~ Brad Holland

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.) ~ Gustave Flaubert