Still Life Quotes

Still Life Quote of the day

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

The temples perish, but the God still lives.

I'm never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.

Still, life had a way of adding day to day

If you want to change the world, change it through the market

Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

Still ending, and beginning still.

Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

... life, by definition, is never still.

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.

I have you with me, and I'm terrified you'll disappear.

Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life!

I'm not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again...

I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge