The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“To become a leader, renovate your mind with painting of peace and roof your heart with ceiling of love. No love, no… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is… — James Nares Copy Share Image
Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
“I like to work in watercolor, with as little under-drawing as I can get away with. I like the unpredictability of a… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“There's a reason why I tell this story. To me these Sunday painters represent myo—the strangeness of beauty—an idea that transcendence can… — Lydia Minatoya Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter;… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It… — Alan Licht Copy Share Image
Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I almost can't believe you won first place, because the painting deserves it so much, and people who deserve to win hardly… — Natalie Standiford Copy Share Image
I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand… — John Hench Copy Share Image
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy,… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it,… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
I think the worst lie I ever told was, because my last name is Goth, I used to tell kids at school… — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Keep moving Never shy off obstacle on the way of your endeavour. Keep moving is the virtue of progress.Never lament setback of… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Tommy showed me around, starting with the photos on the walls, many of which were of himself, including a few grand, framed… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place. — Paul Strisik Copy Share Image
“stranger riding one of those paints and coming back over the same trail, neither of the men looking as though there’d been… — Willard Wyman Copy Share Image
Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
