All Quotes

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
‐‐ Chuck Close

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
‐‐ Balthus

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
‐‐ Gustave Courbet

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.
‐‐ Susan Minot

'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
‐‐ Francisco Goya

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
‐‐ Edvard Munch

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
‐‐ Ralph Bakshi

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
‐‐ Callum Keith Rennie

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
‐‐ Grandma Moses

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
‐‐ Philip Guston

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.
‐‐ Cleo Moore

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
‐‐ Balthus

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
‐‐ Edward Hopper

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
‐‐ Billy Carter

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

'Pair of Kings' is so much fun, literally. It is a very physical show with loads of stunts and green screen work, and you never know what great adventure is ahead of you! It's also a nice change in terms of being of similar ages to Doc Shaw and Mitchel Musso.
‐‐ Kelsey Chow

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
‐‐ Oksana Baiul

Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.
‐‐ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the only way forward. Absence of dialogue leads to tension.
‐‐ Asif Ali Zardari

Pakistan has done some really terrible things, and yet they also have facilitated our military capabilities in ways that are critical to our country.
‐‐ Trent Franks

Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do.
‐‐ Ayub Khan

Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.
‐‐ Shaukat Aziz

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.
‐‐ Stephen Hadley

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.
‐‐ Stephen Hadley

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
‐‐ Benazir Bhutto

Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
‐‐ Palaniappan Chidambaram

Pakistan is not a unified country.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic State - to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many non-Muslims - Hindus, Christians, and Parsis - but they are all Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other citizens and will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Pakistan is rich in sporting talent, but the only thing needed is to have sincere and honest administrators who should be held accountable by the government. Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.
‐‐ Jahangir Khan

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.
‐‐ Iqbal Quadir

Pakistan is the first South Asian country to sign a free trade agreement and currency swap agreement with China.
‐‐ Li Keqiang

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
‐‐ Imran Khan

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.
‐‐ Al Green

Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
‐‐ Benazir Bhutto

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.
‐‐ Richard Holbrooke