I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“See, if you paint wrong because that’s the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus Copy Share Image
Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait. — Jon Witcomb Copy Share Image
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting,… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
Another thing that you really do when you play, that you're supposed to do, is colors. You know, you cannot play with… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
When an artist wants to paint a painting, they have all those things in their head that they want to portray on… — Justin Verlander Copy Share Image
Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture,… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and… — Mary Beth McKenzie Copy Share Image
At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you… — Peter Webber Copy Share Image
I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I needed to take her to a concert, or maybe invite her out to go stencil street art in the middle of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret, — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“I had to stop selling stick-figure portraits of women at the beach, after too many customers complained I was making them look… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Let us paint depth, joy, and happiness onto the canvas of our lives, for it is a vital and gratifying endeavor. (Painting… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses -… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Every day I'm in my studio - it's wooden and purpose-built at the end of our garden. It's filthy and has got… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
“Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.” — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
![“Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.” quote by Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/9f6/jackson-pollock-8264_able_most-of-the-paint-i-use-is-a-liquid-flow_2018458.jpg)
