In my paintings, the question on whether figures are similar or not is not of any importance, the slightest change of figure… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Unlike my father, who blindly churned out one canvas after another, I had real ideas about the artistic life. Seated at my… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
“The unconventional is dangerous at times, but we must...splash our personal canvasses with bold strokes and daring colors and give no thought… — Asim Khan Copy Share Image
“In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student,… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
“I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“Large portraits of Mao on wooden boards several feet high stood at main street corners. Painted to make the old man look… — Nien Cheng Copy Share Image
I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
“It remains the professional Orientalist's job to piece together a portrait, a restored picture as it were, of the Orient or the… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness with other… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“And more even than the painter, the writer, in order to achieve volume and substance, in order to attain to generality and,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it.… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
“And David and Goliath I have done before, but this time there is a difference. David holds the head at arm's length… — Christopher Peachment Copy Share Image
“There is a love that equals in its power the love of man for woman and reaches inwards as deeply. It is… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The time is a thing; you don't have so much time. A good trick is to try and think about a way… — Thomas McDonell Copy Share Image
I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
“It was as if I was in a picture, a flat canvas, and everything around me was flat, me painted on like… — Tim Relf Copy Share Image
God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“I pass trays of spun-sugar animals, little acorn cups filled with wine, enormous sculptures of horn, and a stall where a bent-backed… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I like the idea of utilitarianism. I think that I'm not a trend-driven person. I really… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
“It’s not visual. He’s not. You know him by his work, for one thing, and that part is visual, I suppose, isn’t… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
“look at the painting again. Despite the obvious differences, this girl is deeply, achingly familiar. In her I see myself at twelve… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his… — William Kurelek Copy Share Image
Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
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