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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. -- Mao Zedong
Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match. -- Hulk Hogan
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting. -- Rodney Atkins
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. -- Willem de Kooning
Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted. -- Phil Collins
Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind. -- Charlie Day
Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is. -- Larry Mullen, Jr.
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen ... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it. -- Lucian Freud
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry. -- Henry Miller
You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer's head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky. -- Bill Whittle
When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out. -- Frank Stella
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. -- Mao Zedong
My music is more than me writing a flashy soul song. They're heartfelt songs about my family and true stories. I have also songs that aren't personal, but just painting a picture. I don't like being put under labels, but my music is going to continue to stay classic and timeless forever. -- Leon Bridges
Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture? -- Beatrix Farrand
The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories. -- Daniel B. Shapiro
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished. -- John Singer Sargent
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. -- Mao Zedong
Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle. -- Winston Churchill
Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions. -- Wale
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture. -- Jerry Saltz
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone. -- Shelley Winters
Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships. -- Mary Morrissey
I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures. -- J. B. Smoove
If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me. -- Vijay Kumar
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting. -- Aeschylus
I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist - moving an audience through a movie ... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark. -- Gordon Willis
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying. -- Jonathan Winters
I've certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I've never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture. -- Alexander McCall Smith
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. -- Andy Rooney
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture. -- Robert Musil
In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry. -- Gene Luen Yang
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. -- David Hockney
If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965. -- Bill Gates
A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts. -- Elizabeth Peyton
I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels. -- Arnold Friberg
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now. -- Jimmy Carter
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art. -- Jerry Saltz
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. -- Marc Chagall
Every picture one paints involves not painting others. -- Robert Motherwell
A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy. -- Amit Kalantri
A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience. -- Mark Rothko
Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture. -- John Marin
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture. -- Seneca the Younger
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The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it. -- Ronald Sukenick
God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting... -- Steven Curtis Chapman
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own. -- Peter Wright
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music. -- Walter J. Phillips
A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living. -- Ivan Albright
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole... -- Alain de Botton
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind. -- Theodore Robinson
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. -- Claude Monet
We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk. -- Bill Gates
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait. -- Blaise Pascal
Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should. -- Georges Braque
I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution. -- John Lennon
I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process. -- Philip Guston

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