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Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin. -- Chaka Khan
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird -- Jerzy Kosinski
I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. -- Tom Wolfe
Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception. -- Luc Tuymans
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. -- Mark Twain
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. -- Jimi Hendrix
Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. -- Patrick Duffy
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. -- Oscar Wilde
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx. -- Saul Steinberg
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought. -- Janis Joplin
It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. -- Yoko Ono
Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot. -- Chris Pine
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. -- Mark Rothko
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. -- Donna Tartt
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. -- Henri Matisse
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. -- Phil Anselmo
I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face! -- Bobbi Brown
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. -- Edvard Munch
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. -- Mark Rothko
I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted. -- Damian Loeb
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion. -- Alexander Calder
I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the time, but looking back, I realize that my debut into Monaco society should have been better executed! -- Charlene, Princess of Monaco
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense. -- John Cusack
At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow. -- Gary Zukav
There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. -- Martin McDonagh
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.' -- Bill Dickey
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. -- Pablo Picasso
Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft. -- Simon Sinek
Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow. -- Gary Zukav
Anything can be painted without representation. -- Agnes Martin
I painted sets before I ever performed. -- Christopher Guest
A soldier is a killer painted hero. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I painted myself out of my painting. -- Milton Resnick
I have never painted a recent picture. -- Man Ray
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. -- Charles Lamb
Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas. -- Stephane Mallarme
A painted surface is a real, living form. -- Kazimir Malevich
I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers, -- Janis Joplin
A pig painted gold is still a pig. -- Robert Jordan
Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside. -- Terry Pratchett
pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues ... -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn. -- James Rosenquist
Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel? -- Bill Lear
We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell. -- Steve Hackett
God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair. -- T. D. Jakes
I am a clown, just without the painted smile. -- Chevy Chase
Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase. -- Guity Novin
This world is painted on a wild dark metal -- Peter Matthiessen
Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show. -- Socrates
Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil. -- William Shakespeare
How low am I, thou painted maypole? (Hermia to Helena) -- William Shakespeare
Most women are not as young as they are painted. -- Max Beerbohm
I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang. -- Hugo Chavez
The devil is not as black as he is painted. -- Dante Alighieri
Beauty without intelligence, is a masterpiece painted on a napkin. -- Barbara Palvin
I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors. -- Marc Chagall
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. -- Ambrose Bierce
I would have painted the White House black. I would have! -- Dick Gregory
There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair! -- Hilda Doolittle
Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. -- Mark Akenside
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. -- Mark Twain
Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ... -- Shana Alexander
When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy. -- Billy Hughes
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography -- Pablo Picasso
No one ever ordered anything from me. I painted because I wanted to. -- Wolfgang Beltracchi
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness. -- Joan Miro
Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night". -- Rabindranath Tagore
The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
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If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. -- Neil Simon
A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait. -- Alvin Langdon Coburn
I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description. -- Winslow Homer
Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches... -- Frances Hardinge
Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow. -- Ellsworth Kelly
Britney painted her finger nails and it really seemed like they had a blast. -- Shar Jackson
[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel. -- Damien Hirst
Her freckles were orange, as if somebody had spray-painted her face with liquid Cheetos. -- Rick Riordan
Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I have never painted as well as I thought I should, so frustration came early... -- Thomas S. Buechner
Calico KittyMy calico kittywas painted and primedshe could prowlthe night away ~without spending a dime... -- Muse
Sweatpants painted to look like denim are the end of civilization. It drives me mental. -- Annabel Tollman
There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture. -- Thomas Couture
The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations. -- Loretta Lux
In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves. -- H. G. Wells
Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes. -- Oscar Wilde
My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions.It's really cool. -- Lewis Black
The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said. -- Rick Riordan
If you have ever spray-painted your girlfriends name on an overpass, you might be a redneck. -- Jeff Foxworthy
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object. -- Georg Baselitz
I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling. -- Jamie Wyeth
I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out. -- Troian Bellisario
If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years. -- John F. Carlson
I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard. -- Peter Schjeldahl
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. -- Edvard Munch
Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes. -- Ira Levin
She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left. -- Nancy B. Brewer
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I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker. -- Joe Hill
But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones. -- E. M. Forster
When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty! -- Ernesto Illy
Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite. -- Norman Rockwell
I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside. -- Cassandra Clare
There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids -- Aesop Rock
Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of. -- William Butler Yeats
Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them. -- James Franco
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside. -- Paul Cezanne
The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself. -- Alice Neel
A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives. -- Kazimir Malevich
I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it. -- Winslow Homer
If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller. -- Rita Mae Brown
If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name. -- Peter Greenaway
Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you. -- Max Lucado
What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance. -- Andrew Neel
The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being. -- P. T. Barnum
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations. -- Mason Cooley
You wouldn't get rid of the Mona Lisa just because someone painted another picture of a woman smiling. -- Clive Rowe
Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday. -- Charles Saatchi

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