When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw.… — David Coverdale Copy Share Image
“SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
He paints a picture, but the story has a twist, his paint brush is a razor And his canvas is his whirst,… — Jasie Copy Share Image
I think I've identified as an artist since I was a baby - literally a baby. I made a book of drawings… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater, even though I didn't… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Between nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture--he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I wish I could be more serious about painting. I think there may be something going on there and I should pursue… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Design is meant to grab you and win you over. It is meant to function in a way so as to make… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
“Deconstruction seeks neither to reframe art with some perfect, apt and truthful new frame, nor simply to maintain the illusion of some… — James N. Powell Copy Share Image
“Color corrected, yes, but I am reminding myself that it is still an image worthy of awe.” Yoshi is looking at the… — Meg Howrey Copy Share Image
Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
I'm like a gypsy. I've got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I'm working… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My latest decorating obsession is dipping - like painting the bottom of things. I've done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in… — Tamara Taylor Copy Share Image
The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking… — Larry Poons Copy Share Image
Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. The best… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
If you were a painter and a rock and roll musician and weren't established in either - to be an artist today… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of… — Hiroshi Hamaya Copy Share Image
Answer this question: Why did the painting technique used during the Archaic period (from the Greek word archaios, meaning old) I give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“Saturday-morning cartoon sure aren't what they used to be. The animation is lazy. Too clean. He misses being able to detect pencil… — Kara Lee Corthron Copy Share Image
“In order to understand how engineers endeavor to insure against such structural, mechanical, and systems failures, and thereby also to understand how… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one… — Brett Whiteley Copy Share Image
The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
What's confusing about that, though, is you [Marco Rubio] say if he [Donald Trump] were the nominee, it would destroy the conservative… — John S. Dickerson Copy Share Image
The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
For me, in trying to talk about something like policing, it's such a huge issue, and it's an issue that's very local… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
How do you capture the drama of a Rembrandt painting in a movie? How do you feel that moment that they captured… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
Music is sound, vibrations, whereas paintings are vibrations of whatever you pick up. It's not actually an energy vibration you get from… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
![“Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see those separations too much, between what is artistic and what is political. Maybe in painting... no, I don't even believe that.” quote by Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6cc/toni-morrison-271_artist_think-of-anybody-dostoevsky-or-jane-aust_2612742.jpg)
![“What's confusing about that, though, is you [Marco Rubio] say if he [Donald Trump] were the nominee, it would destroy the conservative movement. You're painting scary pictures of him being the nominee. But then you're saying he will never be the nominee. You have signed onto the hashtag…” quote by John S. Dickerson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aaa/john-s-dickerson-34601_bad-thing_what-s-confusing-about-that-though-is-yo_2288235.jpg)
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