Painted Quotes

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.