Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, "I don't like this painting." But then I wake up in the morning, look at it… — Rebecca Horn Copy Share Image
If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
I'm a great looker at pictures and paintings, and so forth. That's what I look for - a kind of formal beauty.… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is… — Socrates Copy Share Image
In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could… — Lorenz Hart Copy Share Image
“Once an artist painted on a huge canvas - the skies; The sun, the landscapes and everything that was nice. To complete… — Sushrut A. Badhe Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your main contribution is spray painting your nickname on other people's things. And my cousin, who's a 'gangster', he's like, 'No, Tash,… — Natasha Leggero Copy Share Image
“he [Picasso] used to say quite often, paper lasts quite as well as paint and after all it all ages together, why… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get… — David Carson Copy Share Image
“crazy,” she’d said, “but I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great… — Don Bluth Copy Share Image
You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Make a small painting of what you want to do... and project it up on a white wall... The enlarged version is… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning.… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
“Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving,… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting. — Gerald Brommer Copy Share Image
I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
Hermes bags are the only bags that auction houses accept. Given that it's already valuable to begin with, making it into an… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I… — Rod Taylor Copy Share Image