A society person who is enthusiastic about modern
painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and
painting will advance their status in the world.
View quotes by Mary McCarthyA Test match is like a
painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris
painting.
View quotes by Ian Chappell'A portrait is a
painting with something wrong with the mouth.'
View quotes by John Singer SargentA poem is like a
painting.
( Ut pictura poesis )
View quotes by HoraceAnd when did you last see your father? (Title of
painting 1878)
View quotes by W F YeamesPainting is just another way of keeping a diary.
View quotes by Pablo PicassoA man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of
painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
View quotes by Lord ByronI'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African
painting his face white and praying to a rock.
View quotes by Howard SternThere are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music,
painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
View quotes by Jean De La BruyereGod comes to us in theatre in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful
painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
View quotes by Julie HarrisIf I had been around when Rubens was
painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
View quotes by Dawn FrenchIn spite of myself, I go on hoping. I hope with all my heart that there will be
painting in heaven. [Last words]
View quotes by Jean-baptiste CorotPainting is very interesting.
View quotes by Sam WaterstonWriting has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as
painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself
View quotes by Truman CapoteA
painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
View quotes by Corita KentWhen superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in
painting, and in music.
View quotes by Denis DiderotLandscape is to American
painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
View quotes by Robert HughesThe
painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
View quotes by Jackson PollockIt is only when I lose contact with the
painting that the result is a mess.
View quotes by Jackson PollockThe temple of art is built of words.
Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses
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