It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few... — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.” — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. — Nigel Dennis Copy Share Image
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week! — L. S. Lowry Copy Share Image
I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“In the canvas of the coming year, paint not just with colors of knowledge, but with the bold strokes of your inner… — Dr. Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls. — John Hart Copy Share Image
Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
“Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an… — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
When I look at a football pitch, I suppose, yes, I see it as my canvas. I see solutions, possibilities, the space… — Robin Van Persie Copy Share Image
I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
“I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“It remains the professional Orientalist's job to piece together a portrait, a restored picture as it were, of the Orient or the… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
“Large portraits of Mao on wooden boards several feet high stood at main street corners. Painted to make the old man look… — Nien Cheng Copy Share Image
People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done. — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
“Michael used to draw self-portraits with nightmares hidden in his curls.” — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or… — Joshua Greenberg Copy Share Image
It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
