I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
“And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we'd end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely… — Wu Guanzhong Copy Share Image
I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on.… — Sam Lake Copy Share Image
“Have you ever stared at a painting so long that the colors blur and you can’t tell what you’re looking at anymore?… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
You can just start shooting things and see how it goes. But time is still money, so you have to know when… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
My paintbrush is my razor, my body is my canvas. so many pictures cover my body. with each picture I paint, the… — Lauren Copy Share Image
Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I studied painting, sculpture and video in both undergrad and grad school, but I've always been more interested in music and I've… — Jorge Elbrecht Copy Share Image
As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks… — Mario Sorrenti Copy Share Image
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps… — Chris Hondros Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the… — Charles Sovek Copy Share Image
My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there.… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
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