“Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are… — John Berger Copy Share Image
My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
In the back of every painting there's an entire universe that makes it possible for the painting to be there: an army… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
“It’s a question of legacy. Who else will do this work but us? The men who rarely include them in retrospectives? The… — Stephanie Dupal Copy Share Image
“A LIGHT RAIN fell across Tokyo. I looked out the window over the dull, grey landscape of TV aerials poking into the… — Chassis Albuquerque Copy Share Image
It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Who was that?” I whispered, as if the walls could hear me. They were lined with pictures, a few of which I… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what’s usually in the… — Robert Mangold Copy Share Image
“Svetlana said that she identified with that Madonna more than with any other woman in any other painting. She kept asking me… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately life has a way of sidetracking one’s greatest ambitions. Painters, would-be artists, end up whitewashing walls. Sculptors are forced to design… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Life is a Canvas. Every action of ours is a stroke of paint and at the end, how beautiful our painting is… — RVM Copy Share Image
Ring sense is an art, a gift from God that flows out of a fighter like a great painting flows out of… — Ray Arcel Copy Share Image
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage,… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Pa-ta Shan-jen (A painter who watched Mingfall) lived in a tree: The brush May paint the mountains and streams Though the territory… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I wasn't artistic in drawing or painting, but I think I am artistic in sport. I think I'm always looking for the… — Robin Van Persie Copy Share Image
The medium of film is really wonderful because it can behave in the same way as collage and painting; it can be… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career,… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
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