Pastel Painting Quotes & Sayings

In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck. — John Berger

But the long tunnels of art through which I walked in Rome that day had no ragged edges, cowardly colors, or shades of pastel that didn't know what to do with themselves. The wisdom, perfection, and beauty of the colors and forms I passed were more than enough, in their collectivity, to hint at the principles which govern the hereafter, whatever that may be. Indeed, even a detail of one painting can offer solid direction in this regard if one knows how to look — Mark Helprin

Of course when you spend four hours in prosthetic makeup and you really are looking at yourself and you see how revolting you've become in a way, it obviously adds another strand and helps you ... a little bit more. — Gerard Butler

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe! — Laurie Halse Anderson

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books. — Mahatma Gandhi

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind. — Peter Schjeldahl

Seek the light and live in love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Wherever a great soul utters its thoughts, there is Golgatha. — Heinrich Heine

It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs. — Marie Lu

Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance. — T. B. Joshua

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline. — Vikram Seth

I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s. — Cherie Lunghi