What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.
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Related Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to... CHUCK CLOSE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire un... LIONEL SUGGS I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're pa... JACKSON POLLOCK Imagine your life is a big canvas. Picture it in your mind and think about the beginnning of your pa... STEPHEN BIRO What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual... CHEECH MARIN You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a ... EDWARD STEICHEN You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a p... EDWARD STEICHEN The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires. TIM FARGO I wish you could see what I see when I look at you. ALLISON PANG What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a pr... BILL DRAYTON You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to ... SOURCE UNKNOWN Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do ... FAT JOE I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanist... FRANK STELLA Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house... JR It's like looking at a painting by [Claude] Monet. The closer you look the more there is to see. JASON GILKISON What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting o... JACKSON POLLOCK Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignoran... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add. CAMILLE PISSARRO The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color. MILLARD DREXLER If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, y... RORY KINNEAR I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY When you look at it, it is the most logical thing to do. FRED HUMES You were like a blank piece of paper, sitting there; lonely, empty, lifeless, and soulless. Until li... ROSA M. BETANCES Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from... DAN PEARCE When you look up/ Do you see the blue sky of what might be / Or the darkness of what will never be? ... KAMI GARCIA What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anythin... YUKIO MISHIMA It Is Not What You Look At, But What You See! Look Past, The Surface & See Through The Smoke & Mirro... GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE When you look around, what do you see?
If you have faith, every thing is a miracle and every one is ... JOHN B. BEJO The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing som... BEN WHISHAW The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror. STEVE BACKLEY You see the most when you're not looking for anything in particular...when you look too hard for som... KATIE KACVINSKY Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at n... SIMON MAINWARING But the most important thing to do, regardless of what company you are with, is to find out the deta... DARLENE ULM If you look at the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection now, it doesn't tell the story of wha... ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG You come to our stadium and look at the aura of 100,000 people. You look up there and see an Army ta... JERRY JONES When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you. PHILIPPA GREGORY I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time. USHER What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out... NATHAN MYHRVOLD If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privac... JAY SEKULOW What do you see when you look in the mirror? I hope it goes beyond beauty. I hope what you see is th... TEMITAYO OLAMI What do you see when you look in the mirror? I hope it goes beyond beauty. I hope what you see is th... TEMITAYO OLAMI The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular,... ELLIOTT ERWITT The question is not what you look at, but what you see. HENRY DAVID THOREAU That means when you walk through the door at Wal-Mart, one out of every five people you see aren't c... BRIAN FLYNN You don't see too many women and when you do, they're all covered up, DAVID HERNANDEZ ill treat you like a princess not because you deserve it but because every time i look at you its wh... PEDRO MAGALHAES Acting is a piece of canvas, you are the brush and the possibilities are limitless. ROSE B MASHIGO When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. ALBERTO GIACOMETTI When you look at a fellow, if you taught yourself to look for it, you can see his song written on hi... AUGUST WILSON Always try to see behind what you see because all you need to see can be only at the behind of the t... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When yo... SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with noth... HENRY PETROSKI Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replie... LEWIS CARROLL What you see on the surface is sort of a beach look. But you never see any standing water. BRUCE HOLIDAY The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a... JOHN HURT There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When I look in the mirror, I see me. Who do you see? ANTHONY T. HINCKS I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is wh... STEVE MARTIN The problem with looking in the mirror is that you never know how you will feel about what you see. ... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think ... CARRIE FISHER Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What... TED DEKKER I've always been kind of uncomfortable just on the beach in a swimsuit. I'm never my most co... CHRISSY TEIGEN People believe that Noah's Ark is a legend when we are already apart of this legend, look around wha... ABDULKADIR ABDULLAHI MOHAMED MIRRE The one thing I look for everywhere is beauty. I find it everywhere, and in almost every person. A l... CONRAD VEIDT No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what... KATJA MICHAEL Over population is a cry we hear from time to time; yet, when you look at the world from above, all ... JECON B. NADELA In a time where we look at religion involved in church and state, I believe that this piece has cont... JEFF CHURCH Elena glanced up at him, taking in his words. “If you get rid of your fear? You know, I never look... DIANNA HARDY Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see... CHARLES MANSON Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting. AD REINHARDT Paint what you feel rather than what you see, because it is feeling that make a painting good. JIM GENOVESE I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take tha... ANDY WARHOL Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. WALLY 'FAMOUS' AMOS Successful leaders are like icebergs. When you look at an iceberg, you see only about 10 percent of ... JOHN C. MAXWELL The first time you buy a house you think how pretty it is and sign the check. The second time you lo... LUPE VELEZ
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They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue... TERRY PRATCHETT All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ... TERRY EAGLETON People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh... TERRY ANDERSON The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ... TERRY WAITE What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology.... TERRY EAGLETON Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. TERRY EAGLETON When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. TERRY BRADSHAW In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ... TERRY ORLICK Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a... TERRY EAGLETON What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. TERRY BRADSHAW A mistake is a Buddhist gift.
Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. TERRY GILLIAM I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Dea... TERRY PRATCHETT Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ELLEN TERRY Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. TERRY PRATCHETT It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy. TERRY PRATCHETT The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b... TERRY SOUTHERN ’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn... TERRY PRATCHETT Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces TERRY PRATCHETT It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th... TERRY PRATCHETT One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than... TERRY PRATCHETT It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it. TERRY PRATCHETT Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. TERRY PRATCHETT This book had two authors, and they were both the same person. TERRY PRATCHETT If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch. TERRY PRATCHETT Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them. TERRY PRATCHETT Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility. TERRY PRATCHETT ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. TERRY PRATCHETT We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. TERRY PRATCHETT His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans --... TERRY PRATCHETT Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. TERRY PRATCHETT Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. TERRY PRATCHETT DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. TERRY PRATCHETT It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Li... TERRY PRATCHETT Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif... TERRY PRATCHETT