Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid... view

By: Chuck Close

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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?.. view

By: Edvard Munch

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world... view

By: Edmond De Goncourt

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My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing... view

By: Nancy Kerrigan

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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life... view

By: Billy Joel

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It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray... view

By: Eddie Vedder

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The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery... view

By: Kit Williams

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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same... view

By: Toni Morrison

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Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way... view

By: Paul Lynde

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth... view

By: Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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To give pain is the tyranny.. view

By: Samuel Butler

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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking... view

By: John Kenneth Galbraith

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