Painted Quotes

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

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.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

It seems like if you are not painted up special way or have some tailor made outfit to put on to go out on stage... I don't know... there's too much of it out there.

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

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.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

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.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

I know people have tattooed my 'Sons of Anarchy' photos, they've painted them, on their bikes. I've seen a few of those, sent to me through friends, where they've actually taken my 8x10 Tig photo and put it right on their bike.

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.