If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
When I arrived at Roma, someone defined me as Giotto, 'The Painter,' but the nickname I prefer is the one I got… — Miralem Pjanic Copy Share Image
To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I never knew what my role in art was, because I was such a deep appreciator and such a passionate appreciator. But… — Alexa Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Music is sound, vibrations, whereas paintings are vibrations of whatever you pick up. It's not actually an energy vibration you get from… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
For me, in trying to talk about something like policing, it's such a huge issue, and it's an issue that's very local… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
What's confusing about that, though, is you [Marco Rubio] say if he [Donald Trump] were the nominee, it would destroy the conservative… — John S. Dickerson Copy Share Image
“I am an artist, the difference between myself and other artists is that the ink pen is my brush and a notebook… — Luke Wood Copy Share Image
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
“Like all paintings, the portrait was ruined at the first stroke of paint; it would never be exactly as she had imagined… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is… — Benny Hill Copy Share Image
They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite… — Michael Ironside Copy Share Image
You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal.… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
“A butterfly is a travelling flower, turning the air into a garden and carrying the poetry of spring on wings painted by… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality… — Paul Signac Copy Share Image
Someday, I plan to buy a house in Goa, do only one movie a year, and spend the rest of time painting,… — Ranveer Singh Copy Share Image
My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The greatest work of Art, is life. The greatest calling, lifting, sharing that Art. May these hands, this heart, complete its work,… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
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