He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of… — Joe Murray Copy Share Image
I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic:… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
“All art, be it writing, painting, film, dance, whatever, is a manipulation of time and space. It’s an interpretation and a recreation… — Elisa Lorello Copy Share Image
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
“To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my… — Reclaiming my Life Isabella Koldras Copy Share Image
“The portraits were intended to parade their fellows like specimens in a zoo. Yet at the same time most show the castizos,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the… — Bart Yates Copy Share Image
From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Art lovers collect paintings that demonstrate some form of imperceptible complexity. Abstract images with vague messages and symbols that keep you guessing… — Mindy Fordham Copy Share Image
When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
“My hands are flowing like sunlight. The shapes and colors are astounding. I don't understand these images that are empowering me. My… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people. — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower.… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting… it is to assist Nature… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
“There's so many dimensions to me. I am not a flat surface that can express myself like a painting, but more like… — K.K. Cook Copy Share Image
People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas… — Maddie Ziegler Copy Share Image
One of the things we say... is, 'Do what you know helps you.' And so for me, that might be painting. For… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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