He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
“Henri the painter was not French and his name was not Henri. Also he was not really a painter. Henri has so… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
“Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang… — Kia Carrington-Russell Copy Share Image
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Your life is your canvas, and you are the masterpiece. There are a million ways to be kind, amazing, fabulous, creative, bold,… — Kerli Copy Share Image
“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems,… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course… — David Russell Copy Share Image
Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
“Our body is a sacred temple A place to connect with people. As we aren't staying any younger We might as well… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on… — Jack Paar Copy Share Image
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even… — Julio Iglesias Copy Share Image
As someone that really likes painting and visual art but also likes video and movies and also music and recording and style… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
