(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains. — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
“The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
James Porter said to me once, when I was talking about painting, he said, well, that's fine, he said, but you have… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
I thought, 'Well, I'll amuse people a little bit.' During lunch hour, while everyone was off to the faculty club and this… — Joe Fafard Copy Share Image
I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about… — Alexander Eliot Copy Share Image
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
In the back of every painting there's an entire universe that makes it possible for the painting to be there: an army… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“I think that a good portrait reveals a suggestion of the subject’s mind, and not just a representation of how they look.… — Elizabeth Ross Copy Share Image
I can be any color you can imagine. You see me in everyday life. I have been around for many, many years,… — Babloo Copy Share Image
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers,… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“The power of beauty Lies within our soul And how we choose To see everything It is not found from The strokes… — Apple Blossom Copy Share Image
The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood. — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The medium of film is really wonderful because it can behave in the same way as collage and painting; it can be… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
I wasn't artistic in drawing or painting, but I think I am artistic in sport. I think I'm always looking for the… — Robin Van Persie Copy Share Image
l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career,… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
