Quotes with picture-painter

Quotes 101 till 120 of 168.

  • Edmond de Goncourt That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Alberto Giacometti That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Francis Bacon The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Balthus The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Raymond Chandler The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Carlo Ratti The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Benjamin Haydon The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Ken Blanchard The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
    Ken Blanchard
    American writer
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  • Carine Roitfeld The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial. The camera is so utterly unmechanical.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Raymond Chandler The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Raymond Chandler The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Ben E. King The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Susan Sontag The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Caspar David Friedrich The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
    Caspar David Friedrich and romantic painting (1994 edition), Vilo International
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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  • Annie Dillard The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner The picture was of me, and I sent it.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Bob Edwards The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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