#painting

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#become #created #crucial #discovery #had

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#evening #historic #homage #humblest #i

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#bad #bad choices #choices #grow #help

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills. ↗

— John Milius

#does #great #great deal #just #learn

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#back #go #paint #painting #you

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#become #brain #career #frees #get

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#books #bottom #bottom line #compose #create

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#dancing #expression #form #i #involved

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#art #bourgeois #came #civil #civil wars

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#been #finished #framed #into #like