Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
“A timeless classical love story our romance shall be… I'll paint it on vintage canvas cause your love transcends the realms defeats… — Claudia Pavel Copy Share Image
People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it. — Sam Messer Copy Share Image
People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language.… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to… — Patricia Sun Copy Share Image
I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music.… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Just the way you might look at a painting and see the painting, and the painting is outside you, so this immaterial… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
The artists catch what's in the air. It's not because the artist "felt like it" or is a guru who channels the… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels,… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen,… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Each painting, I feel like I kind of might have gotten something. If I feel like I totally got it, there's probably… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence. — John Berger Copy Share Image
I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
Creating things. I love the idea of creation and creativity. Whether it's a character, a short film, a piece of music, a… — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
“She had never seen me draw–because not drawing and forgetting everything I knew about art, I thought, was the magic key to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates… — Nita Engle Copy Share Image
Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
“It is a creation of your own mind, not the model. The model is dependent on your idea of her. Your canvas… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
My first black-on-black picture was 'The Portrait of an Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self.' I started using it as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
![“Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.” quote by David LaChapelle](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/136/david-lachapelle-8697_angel_michael-jackson-had-paintings-of-himself_34664.jpg)
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