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If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. -- Peter Shaffer
I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City. -- Bob Kane
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. -- James Wolcott
In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this. -- Henry Flynt
I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings. -- Chuck Close
With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting. -- Jo Brand
Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting. -- Robertson Davies
Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting. -- Joe Bradley
I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect. -- Harvey Fierstein
I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting. -- Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting. -- Frank Delaney
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself. -- Richard Peck
The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift. -- Bernard Ingham
Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard. -- Jan Marsh
When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works. -- Myfanwy Pavelic
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man. -- John Berger
I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance. -- Claes Oldenburg
A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access. -- Banksy
Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink. -- Tina Fey
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? -- Edvard Munch
Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented -- Willem de Kooning
When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last. -- Lucien Smith
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. -- Rainn Wilson
I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing. -- Brittany Howard
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity. -- John Berger
Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. -- Paul Strand
My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby. -- Luanne Rice
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Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble. -- John Gossage
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going. -- Paul Cezanne
A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric. -- Robert Rauschenberg

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