I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland. — Too Short Copy Share Image
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even… — Julio Iglesias Copy Share Image
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth,… — Ron Finley Copy Share Image
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels,… — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
“The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone shown such grace and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
