No Oil Painting Quotes

#1. Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

Richard Peck

#2. With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

Jo Brand

#3. In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

Henry Flynt

#4. A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.

Robert Rauschenberg

#5. My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

Paul Cezanne

#6. Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

Joe Bradley

#7. We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

John F. Carlsons

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

Harvey Fierstein

#9. Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

Willem De Kooning

#10. Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to each other can be an accident waiting to happen.

Robert Warren

#11. Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Frank Delaney

#12. After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.

Ron Parker

#13. When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

Bernard Ingham

#15. Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

Stanley H. Horowitz

#16. Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.

Paul Strand

#17. Like the rest of the house, it was beautifully appointed with shiny European wallpaper, lavender-scented soap and an oil painting over the toilet. Geoff

Dan Skinner