“Will you teach me how to paint?” “Just paint.” “I’m not any good.” “Do it for therapy. You can go to art… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's important for people to listen and take time to watch what's going on in these shows, especially the ones like 'Top… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
“Some of his pieces were quite good. Others-especially when he'd been drinking-looked like he'd accidentally spilled paint on canvas.” — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and… — Zhang Xiaogang Copy Share Image
He paints a picture, but the story has a twist: his paint brush is a razor. And his canvas is his wrist.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing, painting, singing - it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in it's tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
“You are beautiful, sweetheart. All I did was draw what I saw." "No," Meghann said, awed by the beauty in the painting.… — Trisha Baker Copy Share Image
The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do.… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie,… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
The beauty of working on a show like 'Westworld' is we're painting a not-too-distant future and talking about an aspirational sense of… — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
“He had always loved to draw and paint, begging to be bought pencils, paint boxes, and paper rather than toys, spending hours… — Philip Norman Copy Share Image
There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
[Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
“I contend that one is likely to find more truth in fiction. A good painting after all is more truthful than a… — Vince Vawter Copy Share Image
“On the chalkboard was another horrible but familiar sight. Someone had dipped his or her hand into a can of paint and… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent… — John Currin Copy Share Image
Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by… — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Painting with a razor on the canvas of my skin. The scars on the outside are nothing to those within. So color… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
“This is your bravery test. You worked so hard and then a crazy-haired guy tells you to throw in a big ol'… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing. — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
They say life is like art and the world is your canvas, whether your picture be good or bad it will always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image