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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions. -- Wale
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone. -- Shelley Winters
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
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
Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For theater, the director does everything he can and then says, 'Out you go,' and the actors are in charge of that stage every night. -- David Lindsay-Abaire
I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life. -- Franka Potente
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
Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat. -- Ralph Bakshi
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
I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music. -- Brandon Boyd
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings. -- Howard Hodgkin
Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work. -- James Rosenquist
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it. -- Rob Bell
I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures. -- Tony Kaye
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. -- Jackson Pollock
All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead. -- David Bailey
When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it. -- Damian Loeb
Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge painting of the Black Madonna hung over my desk, and quite a few pictures of Mary around me for inspiration. -- Sue Monk Kidd
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. -- Rene Magritte
I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society. -- Kara Walker
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It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting. -- Albert Camus
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. -- John Ruskin
Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation -- Mary Morrissey
All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more -- Nicholas Boothman
Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships. -- Mary Morrissey
The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely -- Jackson Pollock
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done. -- R. B. Kitaj
You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own. -- Wolfgang Beltracchi
Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits. -- Gerhard Richter
Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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