#paint

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#i #lives #painting #wanted #who

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#four #never #paintings #you

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#artists #experience #kind #literally #lot

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. ↗

— David Bailey

#before #everything #extraordinary #good #imagination

I did painting before I did photography. ↗

— David Bailey

#did #i #painting #photography

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#i #i think #more #nothing #painter

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#busy #choice #first #i #kitchen

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#bits #boring #come #dies #dry

Oh, they said God was dead, all those beatniks and snooty-ass Frenchmen. Not me. I knew better. I said to them, "Wait, boys! Don't break cover yet awhile. He might be faking. I mean, they thought Saddam was dead. And the novel. And Glenn Close in that last scene of Fatal Attraction." That's what I said. But did they listen? Ohh no. They went right ahead and organized God's funeral. Well, don't count your chickens before they come home to roost... ↗

— Alan Moore

#nietzsche #painted-doll #home

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind. ↗

— Theodore Robinson

#difficult #directly #helps #mind #nature