You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as… — Fred Gwynne Copy Share Image
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting, to me, is a unique experience. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. After brainstorming… — Fernando Araujo Perdomo Copy Share Image
I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the… — Piper Payne Copy Share Image
A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of my skin and my face, and I have no problem not wearing makeup. I don't wear makeup because… — Zendaya Copy Share Image
“In a sudden inspiration, Florentino Ariza opened a can of red paint that was within reach of the bunk, wet his index… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“There were canvases in our backseat. We had tried to flog them at Max's Kansas City the night before, but we had… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
I was always a little bit of a collector and a hoarder. And whenever I got involved in anything, whatever it was… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for… — Herwarth Walden Copy Share Image
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
“As with any artist,I see my first piece of blank writing paper as the canvas on which I will create my next… — Ernest Grant Copy Share Image
“Three erotic paintings by Isa - $ 20K; chasing said artist in Benz SLS Coupe - $ 195K; the look on her… — Ella Dominguez Copy Share Image
Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka'… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and… — Ron Parker Copy Share Image
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
“With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The costumes in museums are often not exhibited well. They look dead. It is much better to look at a painting by… — Milena Canonero Copy Share Image
Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity… — Chai Lu Copy Share Image
The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments. — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
My painting and writing has always been parallel. That's why probably where my colleagues have done 300 films, I have done only… — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more!… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
What's fun to me is that we can make movies but we are no longer restricted by this two-hour timeframe. It gives… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
“Like James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Woolf ’s first novel is a self-conscious meditation on… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
“Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
If I was a painter, I would have hundreds of finished and unfinished canvases in my studio waiting for people to see,… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
