I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate,… — David Connolly Copy Share Image
I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each… — Andrew Forge Copy Share Image
Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets. — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty— a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Even though I was painted, even though I had on seven layers of paint - to the point that I got a… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
Unlike painting, sculpture, or music, typefaces must be useful to someone. Fortunately for designers, the digital age has produced new problems to… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy.… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white… — Norbert Bisky Copy Share Image
I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition. — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
