Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?" — Rob Long Copy Share Image
Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“True Discipleship makes a man and woman a project or an portrait painting to completion With a careful detail and awareness of… — Apostle Louis Gordon Jr Copy Share Image
Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Sol LeWitt had a huge influence on my work because of his use of repetition and his clarity, setting up a system… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Nature is like a canvas, a painting of countless options and possibilities. You don't really worship spirit, because you are also spirit,… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
“Because I expected so little, Gaines's painting is startlingly powerul. A lank-haired blond woman with a hard face sits at akitchen table… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“You paint from your subject, not what you see…I rarely paint anything I don’t know very well. It was surprising to me… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He stopped long enough to look down at Dex’s gorgeous cock. “I can get you a framed painting if you like. Or… — Charlie Cochet Copy Share Image
I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid… — Tiko Kerr Copy Share Image
As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“However," he continued, "this canvas is preferable to the paintings of that varlet Rubens, with his mountains of Flemish flesh sprinkled with… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one,… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
“This is a painting by a French painter who's 35-year old named Francois Arnal, it's called The Drowning Woman…I certainly don't see… — Jean Seberg Copy Share Image
These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style.… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are,… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like… — Ben Schnetzer Copy Share Image
