James Franco
Related It's much more than painting. Actually (any) painting is much more of an embellishment. GREG BILLING CLAYTON F. MERRELL I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920. BETTY PARSONS JACKSON POLLOCK VIGGO MORTENSEN A great painting is a great painting. LARRY POONS SIMONIDES SIMONIDES LEONARDO DA VINCI LEONARDO DA VINCI VIGGO MORTENSEN My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of... ERIC FISCHL BO BURNHAM SIMONIDES Since that day, I have been a different person, ... and my painting has brought me more joy. JOAN RANKIN PLUTARCH ANTHONY QUINN DAVID LYNCH The light will actually go right in. You can use it like an oil painting. DJ GARRITY JACKSON POLLOCK Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire un... LIONEL SUGGS SHELLEY WINTERS I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school ... SHIRLEY EATON PIERRE BONNARD I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting. PETER WRIGHT I had a discussion with the editor of the magazine and he said that he wanted to have a painting tha... BORIS VALLEJO I think each artist has their own way of painting, and it really brings out an artist's personality ... AMBER PETERSON I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious. ANDREW WYETH Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. W... HARRY ALEMAN CHRISTOPHER MOORE You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is gr... CHUCK CLOSE RALPH WALDO EMERSON EMMA TENNANT You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting i... CHUCK CLOSE DAMIEN HIRST Alma is in a painting phase, and the people she paints are all the color of mold, look like they've ... JUNOT DíAZ A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting. IAN CHAPPELL If you remove these lines in the painting, the colors are no longer effective. HENRI ROUSSEAU A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. FRANK STELLA Rather than celebrating the painting you finished, revel in the skills you have learned. JIM GENOVESE DAWN FRENCH BENNY CASSETTE I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebod... ANDREW WYETH I felt I was painting with a Popsicle. ROBERT MERRILL I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious. ANDREW WYETH On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal an... WILLIAM SCOTT I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwo... GERHARD RICHTER Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled ac... QUENTIN BLAKE ROY LICHTENSTEIN MARCEL DUCHAMP PABLO PICASSO I always start a painting with the sky. ALFRED SISLEY A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made com... HOWARD HODGKIN PATTY JENKINS Shes been the biggest nightmare for me. Ive lost to her the most than any other player. MEGHANN SHAUGHNESSY An artist took that picture and made a painting of Chris carrying the girl. It has the ruins of the ... CHARLIE AMOROSO I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring... DANA SCHUTZ ABRAHAM MASLOW PATTY JENKINS In the grand tradition, both Chinese and Western painting have a close link with literature, GAO XINGJIAN YOKO ONO When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making. LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It i... THOMAS MCDONELL STEPHEN WRIGHT BEN KINGSLEY JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY RUPI KAUR You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a p... AGNES MARTIN PAUL CEZANNE JOE BASTIANICH Painting is a messy business. MARIA BROPHY ABRAHAM MASLOW EDWARD HOPPER ive loved an ive falllen but yet until now ive always gotten back up but ur blow to the heart has su... AMBER FAITH HUN PETER SHAFFER JOHN SINGER SARGENT PAUL CEZANNE ABHIJIT NASKAR I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting. JAMIE WYETH The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? FRANZ KLINE As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE OSCAR WILDE —except for the fact that your scars mean you’ve been hurting, I am one-hundred-percent cool wit... J. KENNER JEFF MELVOIN When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or... FRANK STELLA I found I have to stay painting. ALAN BEAN And every painting I put up, JEFF COHEN GAIL CARSON LEVINE He was a real physical guy -- he loved the physical act of painting and painting for him was almost ... ELISABETH SUSSMAN Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art schoo... CAIO FONSECA Without atmosphere a painting is nothing. REMBRANDT Every song is like a painting. DICK DALE AESCHYLUS I hate painting. HOWARD HODGKIN When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I coul... ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN It is easier to focus on the finished painting rather than stress over every stroke of the brush it ... DONOVAN WILSON I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the... ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stor... BEAU WILLIMON NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's ... LARRY MULLEN, JR.
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Behind every painting is a secret and inexplicable desire. Behind mine is this:
When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted... 
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. 
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. 
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech 
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se... 
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se... 
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Be... 
Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting. 
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. 
I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting. 
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting... 
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure ... 
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they... 
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself. 
In the movie, the painting is supposed to be worth $100 million. No painting is worth $100 million. ... 
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. 
I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been ... 
I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then. 
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate M... 
I want to make music three-dimensional. I want to make a song also a painting, and a painting also a... 
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fa... 
A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting. 
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. 
As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything... 
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting 
As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything... 
Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die. 
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. 
Wine pricing is an art - like painting. 
Well, I have a very simple method of painting. 
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Such a gift might be easily taken back again. 
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I'm not so young as you are vain! 
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