“It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.”

—  Miranda July

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even pa…" by Miranda July?
Miranda July photo
Miranda July70
American performance artist, musician and writer 1974

Related quotes

Arshile Gorky photo

“You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.”

Arshile Gorky (1904–1948) Armenian-American painter

Source: posthumous, Movements in art since 1945, p. 15: (in Gorky Memorial Exhibition, Schwabacher pp. 12)

Vincent Van Gogh photo

“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Quote in a letter to Theo van Gogh, from Arles, c. Saturday, 29 September 1888; as cited in An Examined Faith : Social Context and Religious Commitment (1991) by James Luther Adams and George K. Beach, p. 259
1880s, 1888

Carl Sagan photo

“I have…a terrible need…shall I say the word?…of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Quoting Vincent van Gogh, p. 217
Cosmos (1980)

“We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.”

Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire

"The Heart of Noon", p. 116
Desert Solitaire (1968)

Anu Garg photo

“A large vocabulary is like an artist having a big palette of colors. We don't have to use all the colors in a single painting, but it helps to be able to find just the right shade when we need it.”

Anu Garg (1967) Indian author

The Philomath Speaks An Interview with Anu Garg (Dec 15, 2009) http://www.nas.org/articles/The_Philomath_Speaks_An_Interview_with_Anu_Garg

Melissus of Samos photo

“What was was ever, and ever shall be. For, if it had come into being, it needs must have been nothing before it came into being. Now, if it were nothing, in no wise could anything have arisen out of nothing.”

Melissus of Samos (-470–-430 BC) Eleatic philosopher

Fragments of Melissus's On Nature, Fragment 1

Salman Khan photo

“I still don’t have any real interest in painting. I haven’t spoken about it either. I paint for my foundation.. to sell my work for charity. I can’t ask anyone to support or praise my paintings. I’m not a beggar. Tomorrow even if I have nothing at all, I’ll do something or the other, but I won’t beg.”

Salman Khan (1965) Indian film actor

Quotes By Salman
Source: http://celebrity.psyphil.com/salman-khan-movies-list-new-films-list-latest-movie-list-filmography/

Ursula K. Le Guin photo

“Shelley was kicked out of Oxford—I think the story is unauthenticated, but who cares—because he painted a sign on the end wall of a dead-end alley: THIS WAY TO HEAVEN. I feel that every now and then his sign needs repainting.”

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer

Introduction to the story “The Field of Vision” p. 222
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir photo

“What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.”

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French painter and sculptor

Quoted in: Charles Altieri (1989) Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry, p. 169: Talking about the movement of Impressionism.
undated quotes

Frank Stella photo

“You are always related [as an artist] to something. I'm related to the more geometric, or simpler, painting, but the motivation doesn't have anything to do with that kind of European geometric painting. I think the obvious comparison with my work would be Vasarely, and I can't think of anything I like less.... the 'Groupe de recherché d'Art visuel' actually painted all the patterns before I did – all the basic designs that are in my painting – I didn't even know about it.... it still doesn't have anything to do with my painting. I find all that European geometric painting – sort of post Ma Bill school – a kind of curiosity, very dreary.”

Frank Stella (1936) American artist

Source: Quotes, 1960 - 1970, Questions to Stella and Judd' - September 1966, p. 117

Related topics