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Painting With Quotes

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.
- Cecilia Bartoli

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
- Lindsey Buckingham

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth. This means that everything you say is a white lie because when someone says, for example, "What do you want to do today?" you say, "I want to do painting with Mrs. Peters," but you don't say, "I want to have my lunch and I want to go to the toilet and I want to go home after school and I want to play with Toby and I want to have my supper
- Mark Haddon

Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
- Donald Judd

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
- Roy Lichtenstein

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

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.
- Martin Mull

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
- Edvard Munch

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
- Kenneth Noland

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
- Georgia Okeeffe

That's it, I think, crumpling the pages into one tiny ball of suck. I'm done banging my head against this stone wall; I don't care if I have to begin my article, "Vlad likes three things: fencing, himself, and killing off his siblings." I don't care if I have to lie and oops report that Vlad likes finger painting with dolphin blood in his spare time. We're now entering full investigative mode.
- A M Robinson

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

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