There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“The painting was food. He wanted to caress it, hold it in his hands, lick its glazed surface, plunge into it, dive… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
I don't collect art at all. I'm fascinated by art. I receive a lot of presents. My house is full of things,… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Every new day, we are all presented with the same primary colors of life - Red, Yellow and Blue, to paint our… — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“You can't dance to paintings. This is something Ben said, during one of our White Cube conversations, back when I was still… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“Because I expected so little, Gaines's painting is startlingly powerul. A lank-haired blond woman with a hard face sits at akitchen table… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“You paint from your subject, not what you see…I rarely paint anything I don’t know very well. It was surprising to me… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Nature is like a canvas, a painting of countless options and possibilities. You don't really worship spirit, because you are also spirit,… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
“It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her.… — John Huston Copy Share Image
Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. The fools who write articles about me… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Christians . . . ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. Great painting is not "photographic": think of the Old… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“ Oh, Gray, she said. Oh, gray, indeed. As in, oh Gray what the holy hell has come over you and what… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Every single painting is different. I'm always trying to figure out what I'm interested in. Usually when I go through and I… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
I think a good painting or a good work of art does many things it wants, I mean, maybe 15 or 20… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by [Laszló] Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
![“In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after…” quote by Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/005/asger-jorn-16504_accomplish_in-1939-i-wrote-my-first-article-intime_2280511.jpg)
![“There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by [Laszló] Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful school, but we [with Alix MacKenzie] didn't go to that school. We did have friends who went to that school and we would visit there often, and I'm sure it pushed me in my…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/661/warren-mackenzie-4654_association_there-was-a-school-in-chicago-called-the_1912692.jpg)
