#paint

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#beautiful #beautiful paintings #design #japanese #minimum

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#american #believed #big #country #crash

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#actor #came #eisenhower #ever #expressive

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#cooper #expect #famous #gary #gary cooper

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#clown #i #me #painting #president

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#been #folks #haven #i #life

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#arranged #arranging #buy #carefully #chef

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#canvas #chords #come #fingers #keyboard

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#deeper #defined #does #foreground #important

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#doing #good #good things #knows #longer