“Anyone can have original style,” he countered. “And yet no one truly does. We’re influenced by those who came before us, beginning… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
People should quit their jobs, move to Oklahoma, move in with 34 people, pay $100 a month in rent and start a… — Josh Jones Copy Share Image
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have… — Balthus Copy Share Image
I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
For me, the whole idea of the radically new is tied to a close reconsideration of older sources. I like to give… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
Once we actually have the production script after many rewrites, at that point is when I start to decide what the look… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and… — Al Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but… — Katy Grannan Copy Share Image
“life had taught her that the men who took least care of their appearance - as with this painter - always seemed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that… — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
It is a painting that exposes in oils what Chekhov so often did in print: sunlight mocking a dark isolation of the… — Alexandra Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you… — Clementine Hunter Copy Share Image
If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory,… — Siegfried Woldhek Copy Share Image
You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
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