The classical writers… playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.
New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I’m really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, ‘I miss the old New York.’ But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it’s painted over.
My latest decorating obsession is dipping – like painting the bottom of things. I’ve done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in my house. Every African vase I have is painted gold on the bottom. It’s so fun and easy, and it instantly livens up a piece. You feel like you’ve really accomplished something.
I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
I felt like I was definitely seeing something – the falsely gorgeous images of war, painted, almost invariably, in ‘Times’ combat photos.
Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.
More than 700 years ago, the Song Dynasty artist Zheng Sixiao created perhaps the most beautiful image of orchids ever painted, ‘Ink Orchid.’ And still famous today is a thousand-year-old poem from the Tang Dynasty called ‘Orchid and Orange.’
I really wanted to do a deep-dive into the idea that women are always called ‘crazy,’ and we are painted with such broad strokes because it’s so easy to stereotype women and write them off. I got tired of that, and I wanted to explain: We are not crazy. There’s a method to our madness.
I love visual mediums, and I’ve always painted and drawn.
At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.
The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is an astonishing building, designed by Christopher Wren. Its painted ceiling has just been restored so that the darkish miasma that was Robert Streeter’s original allegory of truth and light striking the university is now bright with playful cherubs and lustrous clouds.
I did many things in my life – I painted, and I’d play guitar, and wrote and did many things. But it all seemed to come together in making movies, and almost accidentally.
I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love gritty and dark art like what the German couple Herakut does.
Movies would be like a broad painted canvas… or a mystical process which cannot really be explained, like, ‘What is electricity?’ Along with the images that go on the screen, there’s a corridor of dialogue that can happen through motion pictures, whether you’re aware of it or not.
I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I’m in time out.
Most of the songs I’ve written have painted a picture on how I have evolved, what I see in people, what inspires me.
I was trained as an actor and taught to believe at a very young age that I could be anything and do anything, and then you find yourself painted into a corner by your own image or persona.
Painted talking heads is just boring.
It’s one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how ‘down’ I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable.
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.
I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn.
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.
To be blunt, I feel like lyricism in Spanish is of a different quality than English. You can get really poetic in Spanish, but I feel like if you do that in English, you risk sounding cheesy. In Spanish, it’s never that. It’s always this deep, passionate, beautiful imagery; it’s painted different, a different color.
I started at school. When I painted, all the girls would come and sit around me. I realised that this was a really good way to get girlfriends.
I’m the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I’ve lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I’ve lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I’ve lived in France more than 30 years, and I’ve never painted Paris.
People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for ‘War Horse.’ Well, there’s not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced – but it was definitely challenging at times.
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
When having my portrait painted I don’t want justice, I want mercy.
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn’t like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
The reality is if you tell people something long enough, good or bad, they’re going to believe it. And for a while the picture painted was that I wasn’t exactly a favorable character.
At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and green – and furry green bed cover and everything. Then, I think the day I turned 13, I painted the walls black and put Kurt Cobain on the wall and just changed everything into a dark theme.
My boyfriend has always been a collector of art. He once rang up Paul Kenton and asked him to paint a New York skyline for me. He did, and it is the first painting that has ever been painted just for me.
My first car was a ’63 Chevy station wagon that I called Ramona, because that’s the sound it made. ‘Farm Use’ was painted on the back. It was right off the set of ‘Hee Haw.’
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
The thing about sexiness is that it’s been painted as evil.
I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the time, but looking back, I realize that my debut into Monaco society should have been better executed!
Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.
My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she’d put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.
My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She’s a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She’s the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.
With ‘Wagon Wheel,’ I loved the visual it painted, and it’s a song I can truly say I look forward to performing every night.
When the Left agitates over government policies, it’s considered righteous anger. When the Right – and much of the center – agitate, it’s painted as the rantings of the criminally and violently insane.
I’ve been playing piano my whole life, but I’d never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you’d loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.
When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.
My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in ‘The Blues Brothers.’ I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!
It’s a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don’t think he painted a masterpiece.
On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.
I painted sets before I ever performed.
To get to play alongside Cristiano and other very good Portuguese players makes me very proud, and I hope I can help inspire the next generation of nine-year-olds with painted faces, watching us in their own town squares.
