#painting

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

#nature #painting #art

I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers . ↗

— Clive Barker

#dreams #painting #writing #art

Love is an art, Berk. Just like painting or music. Some painters draw mere lines, scratches on the canvas and call them art; some paint stars studded skies like van Gogh; or Chopin’s music conquers the hearts of millions while the execrable disco music blaring out of the open windows of a car have also their audience. Some describe love in high-flown flowery language and you identify yourself with the hero and the heroine and feel yourself in the seventh heaven while some give such a lamentable picture of it that you almost curse it! ↗

— T. Afsin Ilgar

#chopin #love #painting #van-gogh #art

Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#painting #rebellion #speed #spite #the-yellow-house

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. ↗

— Howard Stern

#any #around #between #difference #divided

You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction. ↗

— Françoise Gilot

#painting #picasso #art

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#always #because #despised #european #every

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#film #movement #painting #very

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

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