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  • I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

    Oil   Painting   Painter  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

    Art   New York   Men  
  • In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.

    Men   Average   Oil  
  • When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.

    Tired   Oil   Design  
  • Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

    Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.16, Random House
  • Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.

    Order   Oil   Drawing  
  • I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

    Queens   Humorous   Oil  
  • If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

    The New York Times, April 13, 1975.
  • The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

    Media   Oil   Looks  
    Bernard Ingham (1992). “Kill the messenger”, Burns & Oates
  • 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.

    Writing   Oil   Painting  
    "The Real Tina Fey". Interview with A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2010.
  • Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

    Artist   Oil   Technique  
  • It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

    Art   Children   Years  
    "The Drum Perspective". Book by Peter Erskine and ‎Rick Mattingly (p. 73), 1998.
  • Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

  • 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.

    Flower   Book   Artist  
    "Renee O’Connor Exclusive Interview". The Star Scoop Interview, www.thestarscoop.com. March 30, 2005.
  • When I am recording on my own, it's like an oil painting: I can put that on top of that and build up layers. But with the band, it turned out more watercolor: you're leaving white bits of paper exposed, so that nothing is too overworked.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.

    Real   Oil   People  
    "Banksy: The Graffitist Goes Straight". www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2009.
  • Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

  • 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.

    Squares   Color   Oil  
  • Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because it's out there in the environment where the harassment actually happens. So it's a lot more powerful than an oil painting that's stuck in a gallery or under my bed or in my studio where only a couple of eyes are going to see it, as opposed to it being in an environment where it could possibly effect a change.

    Couple   Powerful   Eye  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • 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.

    Summer   Art   School  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth.

    Taken   Color   Play  
    "Abstract Art". Book by Anna Moszynska, p. 68-69, 1990.
  • 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.

    Voice   Oil   Drawing  
  • A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.

    Lying   Oil   Stories  
  • Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

    Oil   Flesh   Reason Why  
    Quoted in N.Y. Times, 14 Oct. 1974
  • Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.

    "John Berger, Provocative Art Critic, Dies at 90" by Randy Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. January 2, 2017.
  • In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

    Artist   Oil   Cameras  
  • Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

    Grandma   Oil   World  
    Richard Peck (2000). “A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel in Stories”, p.11, Penguin
  • With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

    Character   Mean   Oil  
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