Painting Class Quotes

#1. Gertrudis could knit five sweaters in three days, ride horseback for hours, bake pastries for all the charity bazaars, take a painting class, dance flamenco, sing rancheras, feed lunch to seventy invited guests on a Sunday, and fall in love with total impunity with three different men every Monday.

Angeles Mastretta

#2. Beer is a wholesome liquor ... it abounds with nourishment

Benjamin Rush

#3. Travel is the treasure of time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.

Mary McCarthy

#5. Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

Zac Goldsmith

#6. I am glad to have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#7. A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Mao Tse-tung

#8. You're beautiful, you're smart, you think quickly in a crisis, and you kick ass. Do you have any idea what a desirous combination that is?"
"Since I could say the same about you, yes."
He grinned. "You're bold, too? Be still my heart.

Dianne Duvall

#9. I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

Peter Wright

#10. I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It's not been a bad life.

Dennis Hopper

#11. If you have sensory issues yourself, keep in mind that sensory problems manifest differently in every person, and they can even differ from day to day.

Nancy Peske

#12. So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.

Herman Melville

#13. I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

David Bailey

#14. I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think I disappear into the same black hole that I was disappearing into when I was 15.

Bill Orcutt

#15. Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try.

Gail Devers

#16. Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

Ben Shahn

#17. She was a predator - a creature of the night who rejoiced in the thrill of the hunt.

Alan Kinross

#18. Everyone's voice should be heard when it comes to racial barriers.

Lilly Singh

#19. I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#20. From the marriage had come only one child; he had wanted a son and had got a girl, and that was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal.

John Edward Williams