O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“We sat together in three leather chairs next to a painting of nineteenth-century statesman Henry Clay and turned the conversation to Scouting… — Alvin Townley Copy Share Image
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach. — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
“An irregular birthmark stood out on the crest of her hip, like a splash of wine on snow. He touched a finger… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I feel like it's not so much a tradition as a system that has been codified over the centuries starting in the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas.… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
“Here, in this painting, in these (hopefully) creative meditations, you will see teh same sky and the same sun, the same story… — N. D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I studied the way the individual flowers clustered around the single stalk, their sharp points fitting together like pieces of a puzzle.… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
I am who I am, this perpetual painting with wet ink that refuses to dry. I refuse to boxed and labeled,categorized conformity.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“Blacktivitiy" Bespattered with brilliant stars shining bright And suspended over the splendid, sable sea. Though all His works are wondrous beauties, God’s… — D.B. Mays Copy Share Image
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I thought about taking a course in painting. I was good at drawing in school, you remember?” “You never went to school.”… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas,… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Like James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Woolf ’s first novel is a self-conscious meditation on… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
What's fun to me is that we can make movies but we are no longer restricted by this two-hour timeframe. It gives… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more!… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
My painting and writing has always been parallel. That's why probably where my colleagues have done 300 films, I have done only… — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
