The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition. — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white… — Norbert Bisky Copy Share Image
I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy.… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I like the idea of utilitarianism. I think that I'm not a trend-driven person. I really… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would,… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
“In the first two decades of the twentieth century, experts advised men to have their kitchens painted apple-green. The experts believed that… — John R. Stilgoe Copy Share Image
“Oh, the sudden change of perspective brought about by travel and absence! How different everything was here: the people in the streets,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each… — Andrew Forge Copy Share Image
Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets. — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate,… — David Connolly Copy Share Image
I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“A photo can speak more than what a thousand words can speak indeed a painting can speak more than what a thousand… — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to… — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
