Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
My dad went to art school when I was one. They scraped and continued scraping, because artists, as we all know, don't… — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson,… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine.… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,'… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching,… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
“She looked at him, her eyes brimming with laughter again. Joel sat gazing at her, wondering how much attention she was drawing… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Although 'to paint' means something like "to cause to be covered with paint," one does not 'paint a brush' when one dips… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“For something to become a work of art, a labeling process must take place that requires three participants: an artist who produces… — Wyatt MacGaffey Copy Share Image
All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot… — Prince William Copy Share Image
I think we all go through times in our lives when we decide, "I'm going to try something else." I tried filmmaking… — Samuel Bayer Copy Share Image
My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“St. Albert and the LSD Revelation Revolution oil painting by Alex Grey, 2006 color image in the book Net of Being by… — Rhoney Gissen Stanley Copy Share Image
Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting,… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I am obsessed with the painter Jonas Wood, but I don't think I'll ever be able to afford one of his paintings.… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“They are very large in effect, these painters; very little self-conscious; they have smooth broad spaces in their minds where I am… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The art that I do is for the people. It is about engaging a new audience who wouldn't necessarily go to art… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber… — Keariene Muizz Copy Share Image
People say, Why dont you just paint with paintbrushes? I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin.… — Meredith Ostrom Copy Share Image
Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the… — Banksy Copy Share Image
But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a Monet painting. I wander… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
At a certain point in his life, when he reaches a level of stature, a man commissions his portrait to go over… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
I think 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
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