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The whole scene had a dreamlike quality, like a Chagall painting come to life. — Lev Grossman

I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that. — Alex Ferguson

Illustrating is more about communicating specific ideas to a reader. Painting is more like pure science, more about the act of painting. — Shaun Tan

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up! — Max Liebermann

A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game. — John Currin

Words are only containers like a canvas holds a painting.

What's in the essence of the words you convey through the sound of your voice? — Andrew Neff

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute. — Willem De Kooning

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting. — Ross Bleckner

People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it's not: it's very fluid. It's like I'm doing a painting where the paint refuses to dry. — Neville Brody

He hesitated. Don't you see? You're like a favorite painting. A found masterpiece, I loved both for things remembered and those newly discovered. — Amanda Gray

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything. — Chris Lilley

She looked just like a painting dying to speak. — Aeschylus

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills. — John Milius

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that? — David Lynch

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too. — Harry Connick Jr.

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy. — Antony Sher

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same. — LeRoy Neiman

Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it. — Daniel Habil

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light. — Philip Guston

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart. — Oscar Wilde

A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is. — Chloe Thurlow

For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor ... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new. — Art Wolfe

A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots. — Ray Wilkins

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro. — Ernst Gombrich

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense. — Walter J. Phillips

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual. — Shahzia Sikander

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals. — Vincent Van Gogh

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up. — John Green

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content. — Robert Motherwell

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat. — Shunryu Suzuki

It's like we're on a rocket ship that we were just painting, and suddenly it took off and we're holding onto the ship with our fingernails. — Esteban Contreras

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing. — Harley King

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation. — John Currin

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting, — Andrea Illy

Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I. — Tiko Kerr

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out. — Julian Schnabel

What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape. — Jules Olitski

Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer. — Kevin James Breaux

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either. — Donald O'Connor

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush. — Patti Smith

Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting. — Kevin Brownlow

He was like a living, breathing painting on an all-male canvas. — Karina Halle

She glitters like she walked out of a Klimt painting — Jandy Nelson

When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is like a painting; make yours a masterpiece. — Vikrmn

My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. — Yann Martel

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do. — Andy Warhol

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts. — Chuck Close

That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality. — Dana Schutz

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. — Gerhard Richter

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly. — Kia Carrington-Russell

Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target. — Homer Burton Adkins

From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it. — Tom Six

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. — Joan Miro

If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint. — Jacqueline Roque

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush — Quincy Jones

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance ... I'm going like a painting-locomotive. — Vincent Van Gogh

My life is a creative act
like a painting, or a concerto. — Ram Dass

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase. — Edward Ruscha

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. — Vladimir Nabokov

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings. — Steven Soderbergh

I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting. — James Rosenquist

Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. — Paul Graham

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself. — Gerhard Richter

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle. — Winston Churchill

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it. — Lila Acheson Wallace

Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise. Somewhere, like in Krazy Kat, you've got to throw the brick. — Richard Merkin

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation. — Philip Guston

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting. — Aeschylus

Is not gone, you're in the flatness of the deadlands. Time doesn't stop. You watch it move but you are still, like a painting with a Mona Lisa smile. — Marlon James

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — Edward O. Wilson

I can get you a framed painting if you like. Or you could suck it. — Charlie Cochet

Libby stood at the bar like something that had been hastily added at the end of a painting that hasn't quite dried yet. — Scarlett Thomas

Every song is like a painting. — Dick Dale

A poem is like a painting. — Horace

Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended. — Harold Town

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad. — George Bernard Shaw

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear. — David Luiz

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling. — Tara Dobbs

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting. — Beth Orton

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort. — Alex Katz

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum. — Philip Guston

To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint.
— Leon Cooper

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality. — Ben Shahn

He looked like a painting in restoration - that at some point in his life he had been beautiful. — Tor Udall

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered. — Barnett Newman

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. — John Baldessari

Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself. — Abhijit Naskar

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them. — Dylan McDermott

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. — Roy Lichtenstein

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. — Hedy Lamarr

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can. — Nolan Gerard Funk

There's nothing worse than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a painting that's been left out in a rainstorm. — Nina Dobrev

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting. — Swami Satchidananda

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe. — Conor Oberst

A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting. — Ian Chappell

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect. — Harvey Fierstein