After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“With her wild red hair draped around her pallid visage, she could easily be mistaken for a nymph from a Pre-Raphaelite painting.… — Renate Linnenkoper Copy Share Image
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I… — Peter Wright Copy Share Image
There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet… — Jorg Immendorff Copy Share Image
My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“A lover of comfort might shrug after looking at the whole apparent jumble of furniture, old paintings, statues with missing arms and… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Nobody really needs a painting. It's something you kind of create value for in a way that you don't with a company.… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
I feel like every piece of art is a mirror of what's going on in the present time, because the artist -… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, 'What do you believe? What do you think? What… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would… — Hilma af Klint Copy Share Image
Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Life is a canvas, you are the brush, your future is the paint, and education is the skill to painting a masterpiece… — R Morrison Copy Share Image
When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end -… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a… — Julie Harris Copy Share Image
“There are vast numbers of portraits of Jesus in the art galleries of this world. These images are often so conflicting that” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I've had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room.… — Virat Kohli Copy Share Image
If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
