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Painting A Picture Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You’re painting pictures of emotions Picture Quote #1

The big picture is that there is no big picture. That’s why we keep painting it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He’s painting Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle Picture Quote #1

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should Picture Quote #1

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait Picture Quote #1

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition Picture Quote #1

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind Picture Quote #1

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture Picture Quote #1

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own Picture Quote #1

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I think I’m painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape Picture Quote #1

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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. (Painting A Picture Quotes) Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You’re painting pictures of emotions. (Painting A Picture Quotes) The big picture is that there is no big picture. That’s why we keep painting it. (Painting A Picture Quotes) 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 (Painting A Picture Quotes) 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 (Painting A Picture Quotes) 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 (Painting A Picture Quotes) God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He’s painting (Painting A Picture Quotes) 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 (Painting A Picture Quotes) 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 (Painting A Picture Quotes) 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 (Painting A Picture Quotes) Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle (Painting A Picture Quotes) Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum (Painting A Picture Quotes) 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 (Painting A Picture Quotes) Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should (Painting A Picture Quotes) Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait (Painting A Picture Quotes) No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition (Painting A Picture Quotes) Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind (Painting A Picture Quotes) Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole (Painting A Picture Quotes) 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 (Painting A Picture Quotes) Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture (Painting A Picture Quotes) Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone (Painting A Picture Quotes) 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 (Painting A Picture Quotes) Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own (Painting A Picture Quotes) A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery (Painting A Picture Quotes) 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 (Painting A Picture Quotes) I think I’m painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape (Painting A Picture Quotes) Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture? (Painting A Picture Quotes) 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 (Painting A Picture Quotes) I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed (Painting A Picture Quotes) 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 (Painting A Picture Quotes)

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