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Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a loose shirt, cobalt blue, unbuttoned at the top, showing a prominent, knobby collarbone. He looked…complicated and hungry. She’d captured him focused intensely on a book, his face pressed against a wall like he was resting. Or waiting.


Laura Anderson Kurk


#artist #breakups #college #creativity #dating

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.


Orhan Pamuk


#music

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.


Cecilia Bartoli


#color #colors #find #goal #i

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.


Jonathan Coe


#background #became #bigger #books #eventually

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.


Alice Cooper


#dali #did #fit #found #frank

Painting is by nature a luminous language.


Robert Delaunay


#language #luminous #nature #painting

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.


Tony Curtis


#another #because #become #been #career

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!


Nigel Dennis


#after #ago #buying #camera #debt

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.


Edgar Degas


#give #idea #means #must #painting

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.


Joan Didion


#down #every #go #like #novels






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