#paint

...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart. ↗

— Amy Tan

#painting #art

Language is much closer to film than painting is. ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#film #language #much #painting #than

One of the side effects of Viagra is blurred vision. Sounds great! When I’m taking a pill to pop a stiffy, how great is it that any woman I look at has blurred features and therefore is as beautiful as an impressionistic painting?
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— Jarod Kintz

#beautiful #blurred-vision #drugs #erection #hard-on

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. ↗

— Max Ernst

#decorative #discovery #either #every #every time

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#came #having #history #hurt #knowing

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#could #else #i #i see #marvellous

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#add #artist #cognitive #coming #hear

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do. ↗

— John Guare

#beautiful paintings #cost #go #how #human

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky. ↗

— William Merritt Chase

#i #landscape #making #must #painting

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#among #because #bought #chiefly #contemplating