Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
In the early Seventies, I bought a dilapidated hotel in north Stoke for about £100,000 and spent the same amount again renovating… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it, there is no other feeling. For me, my work is at all… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I come from a painting background, and although my painting is completely different from my performances, there is something about the fundamentals… — Tehching Hsieh Copy Share Image
Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons.… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“ Rose shook her head and dipped her brush into the Dusty Pink dollop on her palette, thinking it was so funny… — Goldy Moldavsky Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in… — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Pa-ta Shan-jen (A painter who watched Mingfall) lived in a tree: The brush May paint the mountains and streams Though the territory… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage,… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Ring sense is an art, a gift from God that flows out of a fighter like a great painting flows out of… — Ray Arcel Copy Share Image
Life is a Canvas. Every action of ours is a stroke of paint and at the end, how beautiful our painting is… — RVM Copy Share Image
I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
“I'll enter some faculty or other, get a degree in a sunject that doesn't interest me but that will help me earn… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
Any promising young white man rich enough to theoretically afford a giant oil painting of himself gets to remain young and innocent… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
“We place too much of ourselves inside art - so we become part of it and never feel quiet again for the… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“I wasn't wearing war paint. But that didn't matter. I didn't need war paint. I was a different person than I had… — Pat Murphy Copy Share Image
In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“I have stopped painting. I stand in front of the easel, brush in hand, but my mind is blank. It is as… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn… — Neil Welliver Copy Share Image
I started painting, I think when I was in school and I used to do watercolours back then. I attended a class… — Ishita Dutta Copy Share Image
The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released… — Mrinalini Sarabhai Copy Share Image
I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
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