Hand Painted Quotes

#1. The store had a hand-painted sign that read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said. By

Rick Riordan

#2. I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.

Kelly Wearstler

#3. A cluster of houses lay about three miles down this joke of a road, and a hand-painted sign read: WELCOME TO SHIFTERTOWN! POPULATION: FIFTY-TWO SHIFTERS, TWENTY HORSES, FIVE DOGS, AND FIFTEEN CATS.

Jennifer Ashley

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

Rick Riordan

#5. Three hand-painted signs had been tacked to a broken-down gate. The first read,
THE QUIBBLER. EDITOR: X. LOVEGOOD
The second,
PICK YOUR OWN MISTLETOE
The third,
KEEP OFF THE DIRIGIBLE PLUMS

J.K. Rowling

#6. I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag
it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.

Jerry Spinelli

#7. One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people outside.
You Americans have the strangest taste. What planet is this?

Rick Riordan

#8. Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

A.J. Liebling

#9. You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity," thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

John Berger

#10. I reached out a hand, and touched her. Her body was hard, and slim, and lithe, and her breasts felt like breasts that Gauguin might have painted. Her mouth, in the darkness, was soft and warm against mine.
People come into your life for a reason.

Neil Gaiman

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

Criss Jami

#12. I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

Gerald Scarfe

#13. Enoch considered the defiance in the painted eyes and the subtle perversion expressed with curling lips, and then he touched a pair of frozen lips as if the smiling portrait might whisper some secret word into his hand.

W.H. Pugmire

#14. There was blood on the painted feet, as though the thing had dripped
blood even on the hand that had not held the knife.

Oscar Wilde

#15. If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

Malcolm Gladwell

#16. Smoke rose from my hand as it pressed against the white painted door

Rachel Caine

#17. The hand is a symbol of humanity, part of what makes us human - the hand that carved the Parthenon, painted the hands of God and Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and wrote King Lear was the only hand that had known smallpox. That same hand had now given the disease to a monkey.

Richard Preston

#18. I believe this country has already been painted by the hand of God. We can cover it over with our own creations, but it will merely mar what is already perfect

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#19. Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids? ... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.

Ai Weiwei

#20. I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.

Leon Battista Alberti

#21. I know I shall not live very long ... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#22. I'm often painted as the bad kid,
The other side of me wants to hand out the brush

Patrick Cruz

#23. After all, the essential point in running a risk is that the returns justify it.

Isaac Asimov

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

Jhumpa Lahiri

#25. Need to go chase the wind for a while, you are too serious.

Patrick Rothfuss

#26. 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.

John Ruskin

#27. No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

Clarence Darrow

#28. Luke indicated Simon and Clary with a wave of his hand. 'I brought some people to see you.'
Jace's eyes moved to them. They were as blanked as if the had been painted. 'Unfortunately, ' he said, 'I only had the one pencil.

Cassandra Clare

#29. What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can win is to stomp out everyone who disagrees with them.

Robert X. Cringely

#30. With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.

Aimee Bender