#paint

Every song is like a painting. ↗

— Dick Dale

#like #painting #song

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. ↗

— Georges Braque

#i #ideas #nail #painting #which

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#collect #folded #got #guy #him

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear! ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#after #ago #buying #camera #debt

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#beautiful paintings #been #begun #brought #children

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#big #follow #go #how #i

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#difficult #easy #how #know #painting

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#give #idea #means #must #painting

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#arts #connected #fine #fine arts #i