Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I see what sound engineers do as like painting. A good artist could paint that table so that it looks nothing like… — Glyn Johns Copy Share Image
I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“Chiara points to the ceiling and my eyes follow the lead. There it is. Right. Up. There. The most famous painting I’ve… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
Royce turned to Hadrian. “It’s supposed to make them look tough, but all it really does is make it easy to identify… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
What really happened was one day in my late five I went out and I found my dad in the garage staining… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
“He unzipped the nylon case, and inside was a discolored frame that smelled like smoke. A thin layer of soot covered the… — Melanie Dobson Copy Share Image
“A man looks down at the red paint on his hands and wonders for a moment if he’s killed his wife and… — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.” — Liz Rideal Copy Share Image
If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's… — Abbey Lee Kershaw Copy Share Image
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition,… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the… — Allison Mackie Copy Share Image
My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y.… — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
“Comparing Ferran with Heston or Grant makes no more sense than comparing three painters because they buy the same brand of brushes.… — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
“... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
