Quotes About Oil Paintings

#1. Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.

Tina Fey

#2. I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last.

Lucien Smith

#3. Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.

Jan Marsh

#4. I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

Bob Kane

#5. I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and I've had his book by my bed looking at how he interprets landscapes - mountains and water and flowers and birds.

Renee O'Connor

#6. I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.

Rainn Wilson

#7. I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

Chuck Close

#8. I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

Brittany Howard

#9. I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.

Claes Oldenburg

#10. I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.

Paige O'Hara

#11. I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.

James Rosenquist

#12. Cupids laughed round it as of old.

Oscar Wilde

#13. The kingdom of reflection is at the mercy of the wind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Over the white curve he had looked into incredible space; abysses of intelligence lay beyond it.

Charles Williams

#15. I'm insecure about everything, because ... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.

Cher

#16. We tried to make a beautiful world here, the voices mumble. There were those who saw the end of civilization as an opportunity to start over, to undo the errors of history
to relive mankind's awkward adolescence with all the wisdom of our modern age. But everything was happening so fast.

Isaac Marion

#17. Surely with all its greatness it could not be lost; surely in the end it must triumph over evil.

Zane Grey

#18. Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

Jane Goodall

#19. I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.

E. J. Hughes

#20. History teaches us
that men and nations
only behave wisely
once they have exhausted
all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

#21. Takes a while for a person to decide what they like best. Some folks never do decide. Always changing their mind, back and forth.

Robert Ferrigno