My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
“according to my figures I've only had 2500 pieces of ass but I've watched 12500 horse races, and if I have any… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for… — John Currin Copy Share Image
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.… — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like… — Winsor McCay Copy Share Image
“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my… — Ray Toro Copy Share Image
I love the idea of engaging the object, whether it be architecture or a piece of good graphic design, or a good… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father. — David Platt Copy Share Image
I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the… — Mac Davis Copy Share Image
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint. — Joan Mitchell Copy Share Image
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Even when the light at the end does seem faint. You are the creator with the canvas and the paint. It's never… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
“Surely a woman, not just a painter, needs a place where she can nurture her individuality, where she can become. Pascal” — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music… — Nas Copy Share Image
I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
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