Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
“This is a familiar syndrome. There is a stage with every drawing or painting when it looks banal and clumsy. It's worth… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
If you look at the lives of artists, sitting in nature, painting, having the freedom. I think it's over. I think we're… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage,… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“And David and Goliath I have done before, but this time there is a difference. David holds the head at arm's length… — Christopher Peachment Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it.… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
“It’s not visual. He’s not. You know him by his work, for one thing, and that part is visual, I suppose, isn’t… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“look at the painting again. Despite the obvious differences, this girl is deeply, achingly familiar. In her I see myself at twelve… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his… — William Kurelek Copy Share Image
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“I pass trays of spun-sugar animals, little acorn cups filled with wine, enormous sculptures of horn, and a stall where a bent-backed… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
It would be nice if you as journalists - there are some books that explain the painting [ of Guadalupe] what it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source.… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing… — Tim Zuck Copy Share Image
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him,… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates,… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
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