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How Low am I, thou painted Maypole? Speak:
How Low am I? I am not yet so Low
But that my Nails can reach unto thine Eyes — William Shakespeare

Use your own paint; colour your world — Israelmore Ayivor

I have always painted pictures where human love floods my colors. — Marc Chagall

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. — Antonin Artaud

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel? — Bill Lear

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. — Tom Wolfe

The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being. — P.T. Barnum

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot. — Chris Pine

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

Months ago, I'd painted him as the dragon. Never once did I imagine he was the shining knight the entire time. — Rachel Van Dyken

Colombians have been dealing with cocaine since your ancestors were running around Ireland with their bodies painted blue," Kingsley — Robert B. Parker

Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you. — Max Lucado

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green. — John Ruskin

Divine was metamorphosed into one of those monsters that are painted on walls, for a customer murmured a magic word: 'homoseckshual — Jean Genet

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. — Augustus William Hare

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. — W. Somerset Maugham

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all. — Mary Pratt

Inside was a tableau of frustration that might've been straight out of Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had painted people doing hard time in jail. — Ransom Riggs

His tavern sign bore witness to his feats of arms. He had painted it himself, being a Jack-of-all-trades who did everything badly. — Victor Hugo

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night". — Rabindranath Tagore

I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside. — Cassandra Clare

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. — Neil Simon

For Monet, on this occasion, water lilies were the measure of water lilies; and so he painted them. — Aldous Huxley

Park had the sort of face you painted because you didn't want history to forget it. — Rainbow Rowell

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects. — Claude Monet

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches ... — Frances Hardinge

A painted surface is a real, living form. — Kazimir Malevich

We see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine. — Albion Fellows Bacon

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States. — Morley Safer

Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our hastily assembled and painted world. — Vladimir Nabokov

Cynda and her current crazy boyfriend. This one was a nude painter. He didn't paint nudes, he painted in the nude. — Tracy Ewens

The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Between the two desks was one of those old Chinese screens, but even this bore Jenna's stamp, as the wood had been painted
you guessed it: pink. — Rachel Hawkins

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. — Frida Kahlo

Reaper, Reaper, Reaper ... All deeds that last are painted in blood. — Pierce Brown

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes. — Richard C. Armitage

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids — Aesop Rock

[Graffiti] gets erased and painted over, and maybe it's even more beautiful because we know it won't last. — Wendy Lichtman

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. — Dan Fogelberg

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside. — Terry Pratchett

Most women are not as young as they are painted. — Max Beerbohm

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel. — Damien Hirst

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait. — Alvin Langdon Coburn

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. — Georgia O'Keeffe

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal. — NoViolet Bulawayo

If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window. — Thomas Huxley

You came back for me. You pulled a fucking knife out of my leg. What the hell did I do to get you to like me so much?" "You painted my toenails. — C.L.Stone

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it. — Jasper Johns

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them. — Pablo Picasso

Without the glowing fruit, the place was as black as the inside of a can of black paint that had also been painted black. — Brandon Sanderson

They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived. — Irving Stone

The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. — Scott McCloud

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ... — Shana Alexander

If I were an opera singer, Id have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at. — Lisa Kleypas

I'm often painted as the bad kid,
The other side of me wants to hand out the brush — Patrick Cruz

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality. — Neil Gaiman

The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said. — Rick Riordan

I wanted to live in a house with walls painted in various shades of blue and green, instead of the eggshell hue that screamed renter. — Tayari Jones

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. — Yoko Ono

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl. — Nicollette Sheridan

Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would have liked that. — Wolfgang Beltracchi

Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Her face was fragile and mischievous, pale enough to absorb hues from the world around her-purple, green, pink-like a face painted by Lucian Freud. — Jennifer Egan

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. — Edvard Munch

The only reason cavemen painted on walls was they didn't have note cards. — Jon Acuff

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling. — Jamie Wyeth

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes. — Ira Levin

What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay. — Francis Quarles

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. — Mark Akenside

Pictures painted with water. Poetry breathed between kisses. Too beautiful to last. — Ally Condie

The beauty in this world was hidden by filth and lies while evil was painted in beauty and smiles. — Pepper Winters

As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring. — Wassily Kandinsky

On they went, past the hen houses. These were all mended and painted. They went through a field to the street. It was very strange — Gertrude Chandler Warner

If someone told me I could hang out in da Vinci's studio while he painted the Mona Lisa or go up on Brian's roof with him at night - I'm on the roof — Jandy Nelson

The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will. — Martin O'Malley

Even a barn looks better when it's painted — David O. McKay

The land is all too shallow
It is painted on the sky
And trembles like the wind-shook rain
When the Raven King passed by — Susanna Clarke

Spring is painted in daffodil yellows, robin egg blues, new grass green and the brightness of hope for a better life. — Toni Sorenson

Nonetheless, the fiery dreams did fade, and inside rooms made of clay and painted blue, sweeter visions were nourished. — Tom Robbins

Memories of our childhood are like images painted on a wet canvas, they merge until they lose all shape, often remaing only as feelings. — Brian Mynott

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life. — Tori Amos

For behold your body -
A painted puppet, a toy,
Jointed, sick and full of false
imaginings,
A shadow that shifts and fade. — Gautama Buddha

I used to wonder what it would look like if all my footsteps were painted red: all the steps I'd ever taken in all the places I'd ever been. — Kirsten Hubbard

The boy was painted in his pain — A.L. Jackson

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. — Henry Ford

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself. — Wanda Koop

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road. — Bob Dylan

Dear Juliet. I could relate to her pain. Black misery painted on a blood red heart. Death would be more bearable than life without Romeo. — Marilyn Grey

It took him a moment to realize that they had been painted to look like fingernails, and he sighed over the extraordinary range of female vanities. — Helen Simonson

Painted desert, ocean of color
sun's worshiper, moon's lover
picture of a coyote's voice
sandbox of angels, another toy. — Trine Daely

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors. — Marc Chagall

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors. — Alexandra Stoddard

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life ... but a painted surface lives. — Kazimir Malevich

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"
- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird — Jerzy Kosinski

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush. — Criss Jami

Painted mafritty fritters frittering fitty fitty scented candelabra abra cadaver. Candle blah blah. — Fiddles McMonkeypants

With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether. — Jhumpa Lahiri