Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious,… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that… — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking… — Mickalene Thomas Copy Share Image
“Remember when we didn't know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes… — Mona Adnan Copy Share Image
I do work hard at trying to find the right expression for something, which might be like finding the right image -… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
“Now he stood in the farthest end of the cave, in front of the great lion chase he had watched Thorn paint… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
One of the most important elements of Caio-ness I wanted to keep was that left to right reading, where one form draws… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations. — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and -- undercutting the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the painter who dares and who has… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“What no one tells the young is to be careful of their childhoods. The memories from those days are the most compelling… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but… — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and… — Shirley Eaton Copy Share Image
In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in… — Graham Sutherland Copy Share Image
I really enjoy house painting - especially the trim work. People think I'm crazy, but it's more fun than using the roller… — James Doohan Copy Share Image
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Even though the paint runs, rainy night time missions remain some of the best in memory. A lot of the time, it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
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