#painting

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid. ↗

— Chuck Close

#grid #paintings #without

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#arts #connected #fine #fine arts #i

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries. ↗

— Richard Donner

#commercials #documentaries #doing #drive #driving

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#decided #eager #foundation #geometry #i

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them. ↗

— Kiana Tom

#close #close friends #did #enjoy #friends

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#around #could #else #getting #i

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#american #emphasis #individuality #like #painting

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#between #brass #coffee #film #houses

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. ↗

— Chuck Close

#another #another way #colored #dirt #every