Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest… — George Rodrigue Copy Share Image
“As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not… — Albert Oehlen Copy Share Image
In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's… — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians,… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I was always interested in drawing and painting. I enrolled in college to study painting. But I didn't have any livelihood when… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
“I’ll go to church if you cut my hair tomorrow. But then you have to let me paint your portrait sometime.” “You… — Suzanne Young Copy Share Image
There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another… — Vija Celmins Copy Share Image
In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. — Ron White Copy Share Image
I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all… — John Currin Copy Share Image
All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting. — John Updike Copy Share Image
If I was painting a picture, I wouldn't want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I'd rather show people… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
“An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic… — Guido Molinari Copy Share Image
Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
“That’s different,” I said. And it was. A portrait is a picture where somebody gets to choose what you look like. How… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
Higher than every painter, higher than every sculptor and than all artists do I regard him who is skilled in the art… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say,… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
