Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“This place is alive," Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.” — Teresa Flavin Copy Share Image
“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.” — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Painting is just a hobby. I really don't think of it much more than that. But writing music and writing words... my… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The true essence of Chinese culture is sophistication, refinement, the spirit of poetry. The spirit of ink painting and calligraphy lives on… — Michael Chow Copy Share Image
For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris.… — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
I love movies, don't get me wrong. But I don't go to the cinema. I see movies at the end of the… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
“Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities. — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“You'll never end up in a museum if you spend your whole life painting fences.” — Connor Chalfant Copy Share Image
One of my sisters is a hardcore painter; another is hardcore into CrossFit. — Chloe Fineman Copy Share Image
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas? — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands... — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
