#paint

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#intelligible #means #needed #painter #public

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. ↗

— Albert Camus

#like #painting #paintings #your

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#after #america #anyone #bush #bush administration

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#deep #different #different things #go #into

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#anything #confine #entirely #going #i

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. ↗

— George Clooney

#end #exciting #fun #in the end #more

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid. ↗

— Chuck Close

#grid #paintings #without

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. ↗

— Chuck Close

#another #another way #colored #dirt #every

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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