#painting

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. ↗

— Georges Braque

#i #ideas #nail #painting #which

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

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

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture. ↗

— Otto Dix

#colors #everybody #experience #few #forms

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

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it. ↗

— Lila Acheson Wallace

#like #live #man #much #painting

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#feeling #i #painting #playing #sort

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us. ↗

— Kit Williams

#book #character #divided #fairy #fairy tale

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery. ↗

— Kit Williams

#feature #hoop #painting #place #rabbit