#painting

She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition. ↗

— Janet Flanner

#painting #suzanne-lenglen #tennis #love

Elle n'avait jamais vraiment aimé les impressionnistes. Elle trouvait qu'ils manquaient d'outrance, de passion. Seul Renoir, parfois, savait traiter un corps de femme avec ce manque de respect qui lui était dû. ↗

— Romain Gary

#respect #respect

Magnus? Magnus Bane?” “That would be me.” The man blocking the doorway was as tall and thin as a rail, his hair a crown of dense back spikes. Clary guessed from the curse of his sleepy eyes and the gold tone of his evenly tanned skin that he was part Asian. He wore jeans and a black shirt covered with dozens of metal buckles. His eyes were crusted with a raccoon mask of charcoal glitter, his lips painted a dark shade of blue. He raked a ring-laden hand through his spiked hair and regarded them thoughtfully. “Children of the Nephilim,” he said. “Well, well. I don’t recall inviting you. I must have been drunk. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#painting

She can paint a pretty picture but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas is her wrist. ↗

— Amy Efaw

#emo #painting

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#i #lives #painting #wanted #who

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#busy #choice #first #i #kitchen

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings. ↗

— Balthus

#desire #extraordinary #feel #i #i always

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. ↗

— Balthus

#consciousness #criticism #experience #feel #great

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#best #completely #ever #had #i

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#awful #get #great #her #i