“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.”
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Bill Hicks100
American comedian 1961–1994Related quotes
“(Television) Spray and wash gets out what America gets into. (Sylvia) Send some to El Salvador.”
Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 39
Franz Kline (1910–1962) American painter
1950's, Conversations With Artists, 1957
“She could take the dark out the nighttime and paint the daytime black.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), She Belongs to Me
“Let's face it, nobody could paint eyes like El Greco, and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.”
Walter Keane (1915–2000) American plagiarist
Referring to himself in the third person, page 39. Cited also in " The lady behind those Keane-eyed kids https://books.google.com/books?id=2FMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56," LIFE 69, no. 21 (20 November 1970), p. 56; by Amy M. Spindler, " Style; An Eye for an Eye http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/23/magazine/style-an-eye-for-an-eye.html," The New York Times (23 May 1999); and by Jesse Hamlin, " Artist Margaret Keane hasn't lost wide-eyed enthusiasm for work http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Artist-Margaret-Keane-hasn-t-lost-wide-eyed-5955625.php," SFGate (14 Decembet 2014). <br class="br">1965, Cited by Jane Howard
“Her freckles were orange, as if somebody had spray-painted her face with liquid Cheetos.”
Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief
Source: The Lightning Thief