I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
If you were a painter and a rock and roll musician and weren't established in either - to be an artist today… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Answer this question: Why did the painting technique used during the Archaic period (from the Greek word archaios, meaning old) I give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking… — Larry Poons Copy Share Image
“I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. The best… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
I'm like a gypsy. I've got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I'm working… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
I decided one day to put on my tutu and jump on the coffee table and sing Aretha Franklin songs for the… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Oh. Well was this your first time painting a live model?” She nodded her head, with an almost guilty look on her… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
“It is the last painting that I want to do, but I want to surpass myself in it. I am putting into… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures… — Channing Dungey Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards.… — Adolph Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy,… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
“I drew a portrait of an invisible man on a nice canvas, because that's all you see. Oh, and I used a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
The vast amount of time it takes to make my paintings is very challenging. I have so many exciting ideas I would… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the… — Neil Welliver Copy Share Image
Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so… — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
“Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but… — Shaun Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
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