Painted Quotes

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

It seems like if you are not painted up special way or have some tailor made outfit to put on to go out on stage... I don't know... there's too much of it out there.

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.