People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.
The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I don't always like to listen to it. It's like living in a house where everything's painted red.
In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.
I flew out here on Southwest Airlines. Southwest has a plane that's painted like Shamu the whale from Sea World. Yeah, that'll be easy to find if that went down in the ocean. That'll be nice, when you're trying to get out and a real whale's humping your window.
Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?
I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers.
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.
I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.
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.
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.
I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.