#painting

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #painting




It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.


Robert Delaunay


#i #i do #ideal #ideal world #into

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.


John Dyer


#artist #been #books #different #does

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.


Bob Dylan


#behind #curtain #design #graphic #graphic design

I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.


Neil LaBute


#i #immediate #incredibly #know #like

For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.


Sergei Eisenstein


#arises #cinema #color #difficulty #element

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?


Sergei Eisenstein


#arise #cinema #combination #concepts #concrete

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.


Rose Byrne


#art #big #big change #book #call

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.


Lord Byron


#dress #eighty #hundred #man #new

Writing 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.


Truman Capote


#does #fine #just #knowing #laws

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.


Sylvia Kristel


#agents #amsterdam #angeles #both #call