577 Quotes About Painting

I wanted an impressionistic effect, so I highlighted down her arms and the back of one hand. The other I left curled on one side and picked out her shoulders and collar bone. Then down to her navel, which I also highlighted in gold.Then I took a small paintbrush and hovered above her nipples.'Gold, or pink?''Oh, definitely gold,' she said.I painted her nipples and areola, and she giggled.'Interesting,' she said, lifting her head and looking down.

Love, reverence, and adoration, are multifaceted emotions. Similar to a painting by an artist, how we respond to a beautiful woman, nature, and the world that we encounter reveals the spectator and not life.

Painting imparts new wingsAnd my mind soars high;Imagination glitters the alleys of my mindAnd I fly, fly, fly...

The men worked hard and faithfully. As a rule, in spite of the number of rough characters among them, they behaved very well. One night a few of them went on a spree, and proceeded "to paint San Antonio red." One was captured by the city authorities, and we had to leave him behind us in jail. The others we dealt with ourselves, in a way that prevented a repetition of the occurrence.

I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

I was confused by this sudden glare of attention; it was as if the characters in a favorite painting, absorbed in their own concerns, had looked up out of the canvas and spoken to me.

Was there some subtle affinity between the chemical atoms that shaped themselves into form and colour on the canvas and the soul that was within him? Could it be that what that soul thought, they realized? -- that what it dreamed, they made true?

We make our own music. We paint our own future.