The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how… — John Green Copy Share Image
I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art. — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
“Leonardo was renowned as a painter, and Michelangelo (thanks to his Battle of the Centaurs and the David) was known for portraying… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“For as we would wish that a painter who is to draw a beautiful face, in which there is yet some imperfection,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Cinema is the most challenging art form that you as an artist can create. It's easier to paint a painting because you're… — Baran Odar Copy Share Image
…* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“There was one painting, I remember, that showed a broad, clean sweep of sky and the ocean drawn out to the horizon,… — lauren oliver Copy Share Image
Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
“He told her the flowers in her painting contained exactly the purple substance of the flowers on the desk in front of… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint.… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need… — Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Copy Share Image
Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back,… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
My father was also a painter - actually, a traditional Chinese painter. His personality is pretty timid and cautious. Like him, I… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever… — Lenny Breau Copy Share Image
I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make… — Glenn O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few… — Gary Panter Copy Share Image
People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on… — Mike Thompson Copy Share Image
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put… — Christopher Willard Copy Share Image
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