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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
I started painting when I was in high school.
I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.
In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.
Painting is another form of thinking.
Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?
It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.
Painting, I think it's like jazz.
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
Without intent all painting is meaningless.
When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.
Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.
Basically painting is total idiocy.
I love film - it's like painting.
Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.
Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.
Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.
The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.
Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.
Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.
I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.
Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.
How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.
You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.
My history has been one of ups and downs. But thanks to God, I keep working, drawing from my life experiences songs that I can sing.
Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
Nature engenders the science of painting.
When in doubt, make a red painting.
I've never done an anguished painting.
Yes, I'm very expressive with my painting.
The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.
Painting is saying "Ta" to God.
Painting taught literature to describe.
Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.
Keep painting your demons.
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
I'd rather be home alone, painting.
This was weird. The thing that could have driven two friends instantly apart was actually drawing them closer together.
People are familiar with my songs, especially through Eric Clapton. But I have a hard time drawing a crowd, because I have been a songwriter.
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
My painting does not come from the easel.
Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.
The least I can give them is the best they can get from me. What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
What painting is, is exactly what people see.
My love affair with painting is bittersweet.
I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.
I want to show how much fun you can have drawing... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity.
Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
