No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's… — Ron Parker Copy Share Image
“The owner doesn’t ask questions about where the painting has been. He’s just happy to have it hanging on his wall again.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
You can't just sit back and think you're gonna pack the paint in and win games. You've gotta guard that three-point line. — David Fizdale Copy Share Image
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if… — James Lee Schmidt Copy Share Image
There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already… — Leon Daudet Copy Share Image
I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself.… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“Men who want nothing more than to show you their big huge-" She made a noise of half laughter, half disgust and… — Jeanette Grey Copy Share Image
When I came into the game, my influence was so heavy in the States and overseas people was painting murals of me,… — Westside Gunn Copy Share Image
The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“If I had to choose between a wall of paintings and a wall of books, I would certainly choose books. When you… — Timothy Mauson Copy Share Image
“He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Rorschach knew Binet’s work and was familiar with Binet’s own inspiration—Leonardo da Vinci, who in his “Treatise on Painting” described throwing paint… — Damion Searls Copy Share Image
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts,… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Painting is wonderful because its so private. Youre not beholden to a director or a producer. But acting has been really saving… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Painting my nails was one of the things I liked to do, and I was so terrified of, like, ever letting anybody… — Teddy Geiger Copy Share Image
“...I stared at that canvas. It called out my name. I knew I had to have that piece—I had connected with what… — Ursula Denise Walker Copy Share Image
Picture perfect, I paint the perfect picture. Line for line, painting my own demise like the scriptures. Within these lines you'll be… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
