I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
My latest decorating obsession is dipping - like painting the bottom of things. I've done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in… — Tamara Taylor Copy Share Image
The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
“Deconstruction seeks neither to reframe art with some perfect, apt and truthful new frame, nor simply to maintain the illusion of some… — James N. Powell Copy Share Image
“Color corrected, yes, but I am reminding myself that it is still an image worthy of awe.” Yoshi is looking at the… — Meg Howrey Copy Share Image
I wish I could be more serious about painting. I think there may be something going on there and I should pursue… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
“Between nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture--he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever… — Henry James Copy Share Image
What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Design is meant to grab you and win you over. It is meant to function in a way so as to make… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered. I want to have a legacy. Van Gogh only sold one painting before he died, which would… — J.I.D Copy Share Image
A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
“Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don’t you think?” — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist.… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first… — Gabriel Lippmann Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I… — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“I'd tried normal and I'd failed at it. Me... a failure. Unlike the ACT, I couldn't retake this part of my life… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
Incorporating an awareness of style in the paintings gives them a kind of electricity and holds them together. It can plug you… — Rob Pruitt Copy Share Image
I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Being busy with daily work and chores, the canvas that we have within us gets filled up to the brim. We need… — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
“I don't think anyone but Caden sees me this way. Maybe that's the artist in him, or maybe it's the man in… — Amanda Heath Copy Share Image
The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged.… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
Paint job cost 10 stacks, rims cost me another ten. So tell a friend to tell a friend to tell a friend… — 2 Chainz Copy Share Image
Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Kids would come up to me after concerts and give me drawings they've made of violins or, you know, landscapes with a… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies.… — Joseph Raffael Copy Share Image
