Susan Rothenberg Quotes

#1. I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

Susan Rothenberg

#2. The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

Susan Rothenberg

#3. Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

Susan Rothenberg

#4. Men don't like Julia Roberts? Nope. Her teeth scare them. Good to know.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. I think I care about beauty, but I don't go for it. I hope it sometimes might be in there. I think, maybe, more in terms of a beautiful moment than trying to figure out what beauty is or what people respond to.

Susan Rothenberg

#6. Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can't articulate.

Susan Rothenberg

#7. You build up a head of steam. If you're four days out of the studio, on the fifth day you really crash in there. You will kill anybody who disturbs you on that fifth day, when you desperately need it.

Susan Rothenberg

#8. Yeah," Ven added. "Crazy was too good a shade on Quentin....

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#9. Some of the pictures are truly mysterious to me.. which is why I so often say publicly that I don't know or don't care what they're really about. And yet I can also say that the paintings are prayers.. that they have to do with whatever it is that makes you want more than what daily life affords.

Susan Rothenberg

#10. If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.

Elaine S. Dalton

#11. I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

Susan Rothenberg

#12. Thinking, as you will see, plays a dominant role in eating. Toxic thoughts can negate the positive effects of good nutrition. Healthy

Caroline Leaf

#13. It is not God's will that you limp along in life believing that you are inadequate.

Louie Giglio

#14. Hot heart-blood leaked from my face. From my eyes and my nose and my mouth. Not tears, because those would never stop. This was just liquid heartbreak seeping from my pores.

Jasinda Wilder

#15. My belief is to achieve success in any scheme one has to make oneself master of that scheme, know it inside and out, know every detail.

E.L. James

#16. If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

Mick Fleetwood

#17. Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

Alison Croggon

#18. Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.

Berenice Bejo

#19. I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.

Susan Rothenberg

#20. Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

Heinrich Heine

#21. Dern, I hate cooking with shit.
Augustus McCrae to Lorena Wood

Larry McMurtry

#22. The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't know how to analyse him. I just know that I like the way he put it on and I like his airs and forms.

Susan Rothenberg