Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything… — Alicia Alonso Copy Share Image
Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
“I drew a self-portrait of myself, drawn with my eyes closed from a memory someone else may or may not have had… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting,… — Mike D Copy Share Image
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be… — Carlo Rubbia Copy Share Image
I made work specifically for them not to like. If you made paintings of flowers and someone says they hate it, it's… — Josh Smith Copy Share Image
“To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I sit at an empty table after the lunch rush and turn to the last assignment in my journal. This one’s the… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
“I love painting. I love drawing. I’m never let down, even when the picture isn’t exactly what I want. I can keep… — Kayla Cagan Copy Share Image
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I found a new life in painting, maybe because I think I've found myself. I'm so much more comfortable with myself now… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
“Giacometti said something that I really liked: you never finish a painting, you abandon it. His paintings are not finished; their potential… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
“I called, my voice false-sounding and hoarse, slipping the painting into an extra pillowcase and hiding it under the bed before hurrying… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
When you step inside a set and transform into a character, it's your first brush with that role. It doesn't matter who… — Aditi Rao Hydari Copy Share Image
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. — John Dyer Copy Share Image
I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I should like to achieve free, spontaneous painting delineating a powerful, strong structured image. One must be possible with the other. A… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to have schools for painting; there are only painters. Schools have no use except for discerning the analytic… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
![“My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.” quote by Alfred Stieglitz](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/530/alfred-stieglitz-13773_aim_my-aim-is-increasingly-to-make-my-photog_822023.jpg)
![“Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].” quote by Dawoud Bey](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b4c/dawoud-bey-52092_able_improvisational-things-about-picture-mak_2966000.jpg)
![“[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.” quote by Michael Craig-Martin](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/2c8/michael-craig-martin-9157_artist_i-don-t-want-people-to-see-it-paintings_421873.jpg)
![“My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.” quote by Alec Monopoly](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/842/alec-monopoly-41082_art_my-mom-is-a-painter-so-i-ve-been-doing-d_1928776.jpg)
