There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There are no statements in my paintings at all. Quite the opposite - I don't like people to go looking for them.… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
If I was a painter, I would have hundreds of finished and unfinished canvases in my studio waiting for people to see,… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The costumes in museums are often not exhibited well. They look dead. It is much better to look at a painting by… — Milena Canonero Copy Share Image
Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity… — Chai Lu Copy Share Image
“With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“The subtle hues of gold and yellow and the fresh greens and the pepper red seemed to spiral into a kaleidoscope of… — Jeffry R. Halverson Copy Share Image
I love doing portraits, its just now I want to take it to the next level and start making better and more… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best… — Karla Kuskin Copy Share Image
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments. — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
“Three erotic paintings by Isa - $ 20K; chasing said artist in Benz SLS Coupe - $ 195K; the look on her… — Ella Dominguez Copy Share Image
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
“As with any artist,I see my first piece of blank writing paper as the canvas on which I will create my next… — Ernest Grant Copy Share Image
After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and… — Ron Parker Copy Share Image
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka'… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as… — Fred Gwynne Copy Share Image
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn,… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for… — Herwarth Walden Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Painting, to me, is a unique experience. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. After brainstorming… — Fernando Araujo Perdomo Copy Share Image
