Quotes About Body Painting

#1. All my album artwork is body painting.

Kimbra

#2. Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#3. The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don't really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.

Seanan McGuire

#4. thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

Joseph Smith Jr.

#5. Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

Michele Bachmann

#6. Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.

Richard Phillips

#7. The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

Clement Greenberg

#8. Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.

Ken Gillespie

#9. Music is split up now into little pockets.

Chris Martin

#10. I move with him, letting him touch me, kiss me, taste my body like I'm his canvas and he's painting me with his tongue.

Lauren Blakely

#11. Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my politics, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it, clocks diurnal, time perpetual, the roll, rough, tender, swamping, liberating, breathing, moving, thinking nature, human nature and the cosmos are patterned together.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. Everything about her exuded a certain calmness, an unfathomable tranquillity. Her body, her smile, and her mesmerizing eyes all came together to form a lively painting of timeless allure.

Kevin Focke

#13. The best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.

Anais Nin

#14. In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.

Werner Herzog

#15. When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.

Lucian Freud

#16. The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#17. I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

Kate Thompson

#18. Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#19. The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit ... What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends.

Sean Scully

#20. The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#21. Perfect form is the most important thing to have a perfect body, it's impossible to make a painting with a big brush

Serge Nubret

#22. He wanted to crumple her up and toss her from his mind like a scrap piece of paper filled with nonsensical doodles or dissonant words that formed unbalanced rhymes. Yet, he refused throw her away.

Emmie White

#23. The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.

Eduard Hanslick

#24. I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

Chantal Joffe

#25. The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.

Lucian Freud

#26. Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#27. Slash was already in a league of his own and watching him play guitar was a "holy shit" moment.

Duff McKagan

#28. Do not listen to what any society tells you about the body - the body is the metaphor for all experience. A woman's body more than any other. Like language, its beautiful but weaker sister. Look at this poem. This painting. Look at these photographs. The body doesn't lie.

Lidia Yuknavitch