#painted

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#collect #folded #got #guy #him

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#dancing #first #gave #grandfather #guitar

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. ↗

— Timothy West

#classes #classical #elizabethan #how #live

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#every #feeling #painted #portrait #sitter

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#art school #brooklyn #call #comics #east

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#bad #because #couple #just #just because

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot. ↗

— Ernst Haas

#connect #i #moods #most #painted

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#american #american media #betray #biological #chemical

I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out. ↗

— Troian Bellisario

#hate #having #i #i feel #i feel like

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#before #creative #difficult #ever #first