A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of my skin and my face, and I have no problem not wearing makeup. I don't wear makeup because… — Zendaya Copy Share Image
“In a sudden inspiration, Florentino Ariza opened a can of red paint that was within reach of the bunk, wet his index… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the… — Piper Payne Copy Share Image
A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“There were canvases in our backseat. We had tried to flog them at Max's Kansas City the night before, but we had… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I was always a little bit of a collector and a hoarder. And whenever I got involved in anything, whatever it was… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would,… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
“In the first two decades of the twentieth century, experts advised men to have their kitchens painted apple-green. The experts believed that… — John R. Stilgoe Copy Share Image
“Oh, the sudden change of perspective brought about by travel and absence! How different everything was here: the people in the streets,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Being a songwriter or a painter you're definitely facing your fears. You're facing your fears because you're speaking your truth; you're speaking… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“To Vincent, his art was a record of his life more true, more revealing (“how deep—how infinitely deep”) even than the storm… — Steven Naifeh Copy Share Image
I don't think paintings of nude women represent all women, but at the same time, I can't fault artists for putting out… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
“But I do not want to paint our circumstantial portraits so that we both emerge with enough well-rounded, spuriously detailed actuality that… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which… — Rembrandt Peale Copy Share Image
“In one of its aspects, art is a technique for focusing attention, for teaching skills of attention. The history of the arts… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“It’s The Raft of the Medusa by Géricault. There’s a whole story behind that painting. It’s based on a true story about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso.… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
“Once in an endless meadow, just able to peer through the tawny haze of the grass tops, the child who was myself… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“She looked at him, her eyes brimming with laughter again. Joel sat gazing at her, wondering how much attention she was drawing… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Although 'to paint' means something like "to cause to be covered with paint," one does not 'paint a brush' when one dips… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“He connected with the storytelling in the manuscript painting, he said, because it was clear to him that this artist, working hundreds… — Christian Madsbjerg Copy Share Image
