What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting,… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I am obsessed with the painter Jonas Wood, but I don't think I'll ever be able to afford one of his paintings.… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
“St. Albert and the LSD Revelation Revolution oil painting by Alex Grey, 2006 color image in the book Net of Being by… — Rhoney Gissen Stanley Copy Share Image
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine.… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a real character. Instead of serving in the Army during the Korean War - he had polio, so he… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?)… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“all its occupants had left without her. This troubled Frances not in the least. She already seemed to have made a lot… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“The sense of modernism is often seen in the determination of each of the arts to come as close as possible to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
As for myself, I'm attracted to venture into places with peeling paint, and areas that are crumbling a little bit. It makes… — Teresa Palmer Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson,… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
My dad went to art school when I was one. They scraped and continued scraping, because artists, as we all know, don't… — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
“You are the artist of your existence, my dear. So color the canvas of your destiny and mold the shape of your… — Becca Lee Copy Share Image
I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,'… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching,… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“You don't have a drop of paint on you," I said. "Why is that?" Ranger smiled, liking that he hadn't gotten hit.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Theres a blank canvas in front of you. You are the artist of your life, and you are free to paint any… — Nishu Copy Share Image
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style,… — Shirley Conran Copy Share Image
“It is easier to recognize failures of technique rather than those of strategy or purpose, and simpler to ask "How do I… — Frank Chimero Copy Share Image
A lot of people tell me that my paintings are sad-looking, but they're actually more pensive than sad. They're very colorful and… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,” — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
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