There are no statements in my paintings at all. Quite the opposite - I don't like people to go looking for them.… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what… — John Guare Copy Share Image
A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“He connected with the storytelling in the manuscript painting, he said, because it was clear to him that this artist, working hundreds… — Christian Madsbjerg Copy Share Image
In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Although 'to paint' means something like "to cause to be covered with paint," one does not 'paint a brush' when one dips… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“She looked at him, her eyes brimming with laughter again. Joel sat gazing at her, wondering how much attention she was drawing… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas,… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I thought about taking a course in painting. I was good at drawing in school, you remember?” “You never went to school.”… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“We sat together in three leather chairs next to a painting of nineteenth-century statesman Henry Clay and turned the conversation to Scouting… — Alvin Townley Copy Share Image
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Every human being sees something different in a painting, so I want every single person to have their own thoughts about our… — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
“Blacktivitiy" Bespattered with brilliant stars shining bright And suspended over the splendid, sable sea. Though all His works are wondrous beauties, God’s… — D.B. Mays Copy Share Image
There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I am who I am, this perpetual painting with wet ink that refuses to dry. I refuse to boxed and labeled,categorized conformity.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach. — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
