I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise… — Crazy Horse Copy Share Image
Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to… — Robert Warren Copy Share Image
For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something… — Art Wolfe Copy Share Image
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
The magazine business is dying. It's a hard time for publishing. It does seem that everyone is much more opinionated now. I… — Barry Blitt Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me.… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
I think humor really is the most effective way for me personally to express myself. When I see an incredible formalist painting,… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm… — Richard Grieco Copy Share Image
“I’m an artist. I’m a cave painter. Archaeologists and art critics of the future are going to call me a genius. They’re… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I guess that's a chance you have to take when you try to do anything different or creative or artsy. You can't… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
If I had to compare myself to another artist, I wouldn't. I feel like my lyrics are really strong. I'm good at… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until… — Leland Bell Copy Share Image
All German painters have a neurosis with Germany's past: war, the postwar period most of all, East Germany. I addressed all of… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I feel every painting is a challenging piece of a puzzle for me and others to solve. I feel both humble and… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
It's good when someone comes to a book or a movie and interacts with it. It's the difference between an illustration and… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us,… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're… — Jacob Collins Copy Share Image
What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I… — Francis Alys Copy Share Image
The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Many people open their mind through different things like music and painting, as well as Parkour. How is not important. What is… — David Belle Copy Share Image
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it the Reproduction of what the senses perceive… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
