I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Painting can feign reality without having seen it. Discourse combines signs which have referents, of course, but these referents can be and… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is… — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
“Once in an endless meadow, just able to peer through the tawny haze of the grass tops, the child who was myself… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso.… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which… — Rembrandt Peale Copy Share Image
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm… — Fernando Araujo Perdomo Copy Share Image
One day I was watching some pundits screaming at each other on a news show. It suddenly reminded me of this painting… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting… — John Berger Copy Share Image
People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a… — Toni Onley Copy Share Image
It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
There are the guys that wear the white hats and they're painting the picture of someone to wear the black hat and… — Patrick Reed Copy Share Image
It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
![“I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.” quote by Liza Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/288/liza-campbell-17930_beautiful_i-was-envious-of-vincent-van-gogh-becaus_2114739.jpg)
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