You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with… — Tom Six Copy Share Image
I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings,… — Victoria Azarenka Copy Share Image
The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife.… — Ilya Kabakov Copy Share Image
In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“In a world where no one is compelled to work more than four hours a day, every person possessed of scientific curiosity… — Roman Krznaric Copy Share Image
“SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw.… — David Coverdale Copy Share Image
The way I understand composition and form and my ability to enter into material all comes from my disciplines and my commitment… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater, even though I didn't… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
He paints a picture, but the story has a twist, his paint brush is a razor And his canvas is his whirst,… — Jasie Copy Share Image
I think I've identified as an artist since I was a baby - literally a baby. I made a book of drawings… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter. — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting,… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to… — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“A photo can speak more than what a thousand words can speak indeed a painting can speak more than what a thousand… — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
