“Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful… — Albert Oehlen Copy Share Image
Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Turner - whether on canvas or paper - can create almost measurable distances of space and air - air that you can… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my… — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
When I get a script and do my work, and then show up on set and work, it's the same zone that… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Cultural identity is of course connected to this issue. When I was younger, it was inspiring to write about the people that… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets.… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was… — JR Copy Share Image
Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
I do think that as I said before the canvas of action sequences and the way in which the sequences unfurl will… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
When I sit down, I find that it's much easier for me to want to consume a movie than to dip back… — Frank Spotnitz Copy Share Image
I kind of prefer to be sort of ahead of the pack checking things out, priming the canvas, if you will, for… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I met Keith Haring at SVA college where he was having an art show, later we had a group art show at… — Steve Kaufman Copy Share Image
We're an industry obsessed with the storytelling side of things, the content. And then we got obsessed with the canvas. Is it… — David Droga Copy Share Image
Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings,… — Tom Yawkey Copy Share Image
There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I'm not gonna box Ruiz...I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He… — James Toney Copy Share Image
Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image