A Quote by Mason Cooley

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.

Michael Che

Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

Richard Scarry

Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.

Grandma Moses

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Leopold Stokowski

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Alice Duer Miller

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.

Ridley Scott

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

Ernest Hemingway

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Michael Crichton

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

Plutarch

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

David Sarnoff

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.

Henri Matisse

There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We can paint unrealistic pictures of the juggler--displaying her now as a problem-free paragon of glamour and now as a modern hag.Or we can see in the juggler a real person who strives to overcome the obstacles that nature and society put in her path and who does so with vigor and determination.

Faye J Crosby

I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.

Arshile Gorky

This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

Felix Dennis

I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.

Lucian Freud

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