All Quotes

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.
‐‐ Anthony Quinn

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
‐‐ Lucian Freud

The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
‐‐ Lucian Freud

The painter, sculptor, writer, and musician are protected by law. So are inventors. But the chef has absolutely no redress for plagiarism on his work; on the contrary, the more the latter is liked and appreciated, the more will people clamour for his recipes.
‐‐ Auguste Escoffier

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
‐‐ Paul Klee

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
‐‐ Caspar David Friedrich

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
‐‐ Yves Tanguy

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
‐‐ Jackson Pollock

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.
‐‐ Philip Guston

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.
‐‐ Buffy Sainte-Marie

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.
‐‐ John Dyer

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
‐‐ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
‐‐ Lucian Freud

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.
‐‐ Ellsworth Kelly

The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.
‐‐ Tariq Ali

The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.
‐‐ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
‐‐ Cofer Black

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.
‐‐ Umera Ahmad

The Pakistanis are very resilient people.
‐‐ Jacqueline Novogratz

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together.
‐‐ Menachem Begin

The Palestinian Authority cannot hold the stick at both ends: to incite violence, to participate in it, and to tell the world how - what kind of underdog they are.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
‐‐ Rand Paul

The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

The Palestinian Authority is ruled by Hamas, an organization committed to vehement anti-Semitism, the glorification of terror, and the total destruction of Israel.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.
‐‐ David Baker

The Palestinian conflict is the glass ceiling of Israel's economy.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.
‐‐ Hassan Nasrallah

The Palestinian national movement is not an Islamic religious movement.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

The Palestinian people choose how to fight against the occupation.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh

The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established.
‐‐ Ismail Haniyeh

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
‐‐ Yasser Arafat

The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.
‐‐ Silvan Shalom

The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
‐‐ Mahmoud Darwish

The Palestinians have arrived at the conclusion that nothing can be achieved using terror.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

The Palestinians must be brought to an understanding that Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty and that there is no point for them in opening negotiations about Jerusalem.
‐‐ Yair Lapid

The Palestinians must understand that this is our home, to which we have returned, and we also have to understand that this is the homeland of all those born to it.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.
‐‐ Bruce Dern

The Palestinians should have understood by now that what they haven't gotten today they won't be given tomorrow.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.
‐‐ Benjamin Netanyahu

The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.
‐‐ Silvan Shalom