There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something… — Scott Hastie Copy Share Image
In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content. — Gerald Brommer Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color. — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
“Fiction, like sculpture or painting, begins with a rough sketch. One gets down the characters and their behavior any way one can,… — john gardner Copy Share Image
“Seeing how prominently Edmond had displayed the masterpiece, Langdon wondered if perhaps the painting itself might hold some clue as to what… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Does it bother me that some people are burning their own System CDs and taking money out of my pocket? Not really.… — Daron Malakian Copy Share Image
I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
