Painting Skills Quotes

#1. I feel fairly certain that my painting skills might not be best shown on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I'll have to come up with another way to showcase that side of me.

Derek Hough

#2. Frustration is a great driving force. You can never improve till you are frustrated from your current lifestyle!

Mehek Bassi

#3. The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

Branford Marsalis

#4. The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what knowledge and skills we've cultivated. As with a painting in a gallery, the world has no meaning-no presence to be experienced-apart from our ability to engagement with it.

Alva Noe

#5. You know what's just as powerful as a good cup of coffee in the morning? Starting your day with some good, loving thoughts. It can change how your whole day unfolds.

Karen Salmansohn

#6. Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Ronald Reagan

#7. I've always loved fixing broken things.
If something fixed by myself caused a smile, I'd feel saved. In that case it would be worth it. And I was delighted.

Hiro Kiyohara

#8. Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

Charlotte Gray

#9. We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

Randall Terry

#10. Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.

Kelly Cutrone

#11. The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

Thomas Kinkade

#12. It wasn't until I got into seventh grade, I think, that I realized that doing plays might be a fun thing, and so I auditioned for the school play - and got in, as it turned out.

Chris Parnell

#13. For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.

Milford Zornes

#14. Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because several must always be discarded.

Igor Babailov

#15. When you develop your talent and ability, you develop more confidence".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#16. We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

James Whistler

#17. Charles Williams loved his son with reservations, complaining that "a child is a guest of a somewhat inconsistent temperament, rather difficult to get rid of, almost pushing; a poor relation rather than a pleasant kind.

Philip Zaleski

#18. The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

A.O. Scott

#19. Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

John Milius

#20. From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also encourage individuals to sharpen their skills and to nurture their imagination and intellect.

George W. Bush

#21. I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#22. When we have an out-of-control appetite for food, it signals that we have put that appetite above its rightful place as a necessary and God-given function.

Stephen Arterburn

#23. Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it ... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.

Elizabeth Neel

#24. Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ... Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ... I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#25. My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

Anthony Doerr

#26. Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

Terry Crews

#27. Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.

John Steinbeck