In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
When someone wants to freshen up their home a bit, and they don't want to spend a ton of money on construction,… — Bobby Berk Copy Share Image
What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We are all artists in everything we do. Art is creating; it is our link that makes us like god. All you… — Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey Copy Share Image
There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Love is an art, Berk. Just like painting or music. Some painters draw mere lines, scratches on the canvas and call them… — T. Afsin Ilgar Copy Share Image
In the far corner, a tenor began to sing, Zsadist's crystal-clear voice sailing up toward the warrior paintings on the ceiling far,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“I once had a drinking contest with an artist on his yacht... It amused him as I took shot after shot, and… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
There are the guys that wear the white hats and they're painting the picture of someone to wear the black hat and… — Patrick Reed Copy Share Image
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is… — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
“Painting can feign reality without having seen it. Discourse combines signs which have referents, of course, but these referents can be and… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting… — John Berger Copy Share Image
People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a… — Toni Onley Copy Share Image
It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
One day I was watching some pundits screaming at each other on a news show. It suddenly reminded me of this painting… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm… — Fernando Araujo Perdomo Copy Share Image
I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
Every human being sees something different in a painting, so I want every single person to have their own thoughts about our… — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
![“[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in…” quote by Honore de Balzac](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f61/honor-de-balzac-197_communication_raphael-s-great-superiority-is-due-to-th_2608698.png)
![“I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].” quote by Don Hertzfeldt](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/134/don-hertzfeldt-16260_angle_i-ve-never-felt-really-creative-or-intui_2968544.jpg)
![“I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.” quote by Liza Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/288/liza-campbell-17930_beautiful_i-was-envious-of-vincent-van-gogh-becaus_2114739.jpg)
