“It is the last painting that I want to do, but I want to surpass myself in it. I am putting into… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures… — Channing Dungey Copy Share Image
When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
“Oh. Well was this your first time painting a live model?” She nodded her head, with an almost guilty look on her… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so… — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the… — Neil Welliver Copy Share Image
Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The vast amount of time it takes to make my paintings is very challenging. I have so many exciting ideas I would… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
“It was as if I was in a picture, a flat canvas, and everything around me was flat, me painted on like… — Tim Relf Copy Share Image
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The time is a thing; you don't have so much time. A good trick is to try and think about a way… — Thomas McDonell Copy Share Image
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“There is a love that equals in its power the love of man for woman and reaches inwards as deeply. It is… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
“I drew a portrait of an invisible man on a nice canvas, because that's all you see. Oh, and I used a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I decided one day to put on my tutu and jump on the coffee table and sing Aretha Franklin songs for the… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
“Hey, I’m an art lover,” protested Ramirez. “I love Thomas Kinkade. Painter of Light, you know what I’m sayin’?” Beverly’s smile froze.… — Linda Morris Copy Share Image
The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting. — Titian Copy Share Image
I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
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