It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through… — Myfanwy Pavelic Copy Share Image
Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus Copy Share Image
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the… — Piper Payne Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“But I do not want to paint our circumstantial portraits so that we both emerge with enough well-rounded, spuriously detailed actuality that… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I don't think paintings of nude women represent all women, but at the same time, I can't fault artists for putting out… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
“To Vincent, his art was a record of his life more true, more revealing (“how deep—how infinitely deep”) even than the storm… — Steven Naifeh Copy Share Image
In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Being a songwriter or a painter you're definitely facing your fears. You're facing your fears because you're speaking your truth; you're speaking… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
At this point, in 2008, if you put out a book, a movie, or write a verse, paint a painting, it should… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
I liken all jobs to decorating. If you don't do the preparation, sand down and prime first, you won't get a good… — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica). — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Will you draw… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible… — Lee Scott Copy Share Image
Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a… — Larry Mullen, Jr Copy Share Image
“I end up standing in front of the nearby painting with my arms and legs open wide, flapping them around and doing… — Elle Casey Copy Share Image
“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“While I watched her cook, I suddenly realized it was her art. The pan was her canvas, the ingredients her paint. She… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown.… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Cooper looked at the house and tried to fix it in his mind like a painting that would never leave him. But… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
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