Painting A Picture

I do believe it

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed. Etty Hillesum

I never consciously said, ‘I want to be an actor.’ It sounds stupid, but it’s kind of like being a painter or something. You don’t say, ‘From today on I’m going to be a painter.’ It’s not something conscious – you’ve just been painting pictures all your life. Franka Potente

When I\’m painting the

When I’m painting the picture, I’m really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don’t get any thrill out of laying it out. Frank Stella

The imagery is very

The imagery is very much released from reality. It’s not nailed down to specifics of the words. They’re painting a picture, not telling linear stories. Daniel B. Shapiro

Because Guillermo’s [del Toro]

Because Guillermo’s [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind. Charlie Day

You tell the big

You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer’s head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky. Bill Whittle

If you’re a guest

If you’re a guest [at my $113 million house], you’ll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like – presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965. Bill Gates

Norman Rockwell spent his

Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings…pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an ‘illustrator’, a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art’s sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. … Read more

The elements of a

The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you’re describing, when you’re setting the scene and everything. It’s like you’re painting a picture, so details are very important. Also, the music gotta be right. The music can really set the tone for the story and … Read more

Should it not be

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture? Beatrix Farrand