Turpentine Quotes

#1. I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

Joan Miro

#2. After an hour, "Gasoline Love" was sounding more like "Turpentine Disinterest.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. You ever wonder why people get out of bed in the morning? why do they bother? why not just drink turpentine?

Janet Fitch

#4. A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.

Robert Rauschenberg

#5. When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Pablo Picasso

#6. Mississippi blood is different. It's got some river in it. Delta soil, turpentine, asbestos, cotton poison. But there's strength in it, too. Strength that's been beat but not broke.

Greg Iles

#7. The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!

Peter Tork

#8. A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and
undercutting the old-wood smell
the reek of turpentine, oil paint, and varnish.

Donna Tartt

#9. A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

Norman Rockwell

#10. furniture polish: 16 parts beeswax, 4 parts resin, 1 part Venice turpentine,

Donna Tartt

#11. I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint ... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

David Lynch

#12. My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper.

Robert Ingpen

#13. It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

Edward Hopper

#14. An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.

Ahmet Davutoglu

#15. We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls.

Herman Melville

#16. I don't reckon he'd be studip enough to turn up.", said Ron bracingly. "Dumbledore'd go mad if he did and Sirius listens to Dumbledore even if he doesn't like what he hears.

J.K. Rowling

#17. If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.

Tupac Shakur

#18. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

Robin Hobb

#19. Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How

Lewis Carroll