Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t… — Mirka Mora Copy Share Image
When my brother and I were small, somebody pointed out that we looked like something out of 'The Dark Crystal.' I think… — Zoe Ball Copy Share Image
The gospel word of the day can become like a painting on the walls. of your inner room, the inner room that… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow… — Emma Green Tregaro Copy Share Image
In a way, there's nothing more intimate than a piece of jewelry. A painting is hung on somebody's wall. You put a… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
“This time when she picked up her paints, she didn’t think, she just painted. It was like opening the door onto a… — Michelle Frost Copy Share Image
I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had… — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Oh, the sudden change of perspective brought about by travel and absence! How different everything was here: the people in the streets,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“In the first two decades of the twentieth century, experts advised men to have their kitchens painted apple-green. The experts believed that… — John R. Stilgoe Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would,… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
I'm an advocate of all mediums - it's a larger canvas for us as artists - but we have to keep in… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
“...belief that a painting is a window onto another world requires a leap of faith, a willingness to be won over by… — Sarah Ganz Blyth Copy Share Image
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close,… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats.… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say,… — John Glover Copy Share Image
I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design… — Myfanwy Pavelic Copy Share Image
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn,… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
