“So long as a canvas is empty its potential is infinite… The empty canvas can become a gateway into the landscape of… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on… — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and… — Paul Delaroche Copy Share Image
The church was always very adept at incorporating all the different artistic disciplines. What we call the church is actually an assemblage… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
“Unlike my father, who blindly churned out one canvas after another, I had real ideas about the artistic life. Seated at my… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“The unconventional is dangerous at times, but we must...splash our personal canvasses with bold strokes and daring colors and give no thought… — Asim Khan Copy Share Image
“In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student,… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
In my paintings, the question on whether figures are similar or not is not of any importance, the slightest change of figure… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
It's strange, but something about lack of structure needs a structure itself. Otherwise, after a while, it's like looking at a Rothko… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
“I also want the figurative like a painter who only paints abstract colors but wants to show that he does so because… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just… — Erro Copy Share Image
I write songs like someone would write a really tiny book. I think it's the same thing. It's building this world, painting… — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies.… — Joseph Raffael Copy Share Image
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Kids would come up to me after concerts and give me drawings they've made of violins or, you know, landscapes with a… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people… — Mike Thompson Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
“I don't think anyone but Caden sees me this way. Maybe that's the artist in him, or maybe it's the man in… — Amanda Heath Copy Share Image
Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
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