#paint

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush. ↗

— Jil Sander

#cut #feel #hands #off #painter

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth. ↗

— John Singer Sargent

#painting #portrait #something #wrong

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#awkward #how #i #i am #i think

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#hung #i #kind #knew #mine

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#any #because #been #compromises #freedom

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry. ↗

— Dougray Scott

#dry #film #go #going #historians

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company. ↗

— Lee Scott

#broadest #brush #company #failures #fashionable

I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#behind #bit #disappointed #doing #early

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#been #believe #concerning #destiny #earth

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions. ↗

— Paul Signac

#anarchist #conventions #create #fight #his