“The painter, Edouard Manet, once observed: “There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another.” — Bert Dodson Copy Share Image
The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.” — Hokusai Katsushika Copy Share Image
She paints a pretty picture, but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor, and the canvas is her wrist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift. — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist. — Kate Jackson Copy Share Image
I had a wife, kids and a mortgage and my acting career was nowhere, so I was painting and decorating people's homes. — Charley Boorman 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
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
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 have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
We really were poised to make 'Rumours 2,' and that could've been the beginning of kind of painting yourself into a corner… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The ancient canyon art of Utah belongs in that same international museum without walls which makes African sculpture, Melanesian masks, and the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“What I remember most clearly is how it felt. I’d just finished painting a red fire engine-like the one I often walked… — David Macaulay Copy Share Image
For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's… — Milford Zornes Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
“...the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a flickering sun-struck instance that existed now… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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