The '90s weren't my finest years artistically. I wrote some good songs in there, but in terms of my vision of getting… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not… — Daniel B. Shapiro Copy Share Image
The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting… — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Some of the pictures are truly mysterious to me.. which is why I so often say publicly that I don't know or… — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I love to sing. I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don't want to ever… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
“Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
“Claude Monet's Water Lilies (The Clouds) consists of nothing more than dabs of different colored paint on a canvas.14 But because of… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“For a moment, I saw that set of paints Elain had once bought me with the extra money she'd saved. The red,… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris.… — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
I love movies, don't get me wrong. But I don't go to the cinema. I see movies at the end of the… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
The true essence of Chinese culture is sophistication, refinement, the spirit of poetry. The spirit of ink painting and calligraphy lives on… — Michael Chow Copy Share Image
Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes,… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff,… — Banksy Copy Share Image
With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
![“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To…” quote by Paula Rego](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8a7/paula-rego-32940_answers_i-get-inspiration-from-things-that-have_1514162.jpg)
