#painted

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#decorative #distortion #institutional #intense #intimate

All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted. ↗

— Gotye

#dad #did #either #had #i

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#imagination #key #little #lyrics #painted

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then. ↗

— James Young

#be true #fact #feeling #go #i

Death came as a whisper. It wasn't frightening or horrible at all. In that final moment, it washed over me like a gentle wave, covering me in a velvety darkness. And for a while everything remained that way. ↗

— Terry Lovett

#death

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#veil #painting

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#night #night-sky #painted #sky #strokes

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

#author #because #been #choices #door

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business. ↗

— Lena Headey

#beautiful #been #being #being beautiful #business

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense. ↗

— John Cusack

#age #air #also #america #apocalypse