I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close,… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
“...belief that a painting is a window onto another world requires a leap of faith, a willingness to be won over by… — Sarah Ganz Blyth Copy Share Image
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything..… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth,… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world.… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
“I hear the question upon your lips: What is it to be a colour? Colour is the touch of the eye, music… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design… — Myfanwy Pavelic Copy Share Image
An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say,… — John Glover Copy Share Image
I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats.… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Life's a canvas you're an artist, Paint a picture of a garden then go and marvel at the harvest you created from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm an advocate of all mediums - it's a larger canvas for us as artists - but we have to keep in… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
“This time when she picked up her paints, she didn’t think, she just painted. It was like opening the door onto a… — Michelle Frost Copy Share Image
I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had… — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow… — Emma Green Tregaro Copy Share Image
In a way, there's nothing more intimate than a piece of jewelry. A painting is hung on somebody's wall. You put a… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t… — Mirka Mora Copy Share Image
When my brother and I were small, somebody pointed out that we looked like something out of 'The Dark Crystal.' I think… — Zoe Ball Copy Share Image
The gospel word of the day can become like a painting on the walls. of your inner room, the inner room that… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry,… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
