Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
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I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I want the viewer to be overwhelmed. I want the space to feel like it is caving in on the viewer and… — Rosson Crow Copy Share Image
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As far as trying to make it terms of social hierarchy or status and all that in art and music - I've… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
“Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“I was also, slowly, to learn that there were painters whom you grew out of (like the Pre-Raphaelites); painters you grew into… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
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A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
You just pray that something is going to hit you like lightning. Like a movie, a book, or a photograph, a painting,… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
These pages reproduce me very imperfectly, and there are many things in me of which I find no trace in them.I suppose… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
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When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
My painting technique has not changed that much over time, although perhaps I am painting tighter and with more detail, in spite… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
“Mothers are artists, in their way, wouldn’t you say? They’re like symphony conductors of entire lives. They’re painters or sculptors. And not… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
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“if I was a painter, and was to paint the American Eagle, how should I do it?...I should want to draw it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
What's the woman doing there?" he asked. "Covering a scratch on the hood. She was cheaper than a new paint job." He… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“But more words tumble out. 'You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you,… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic… — Alessandro Michele Copy Share Image
The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A… — George Inness Copy Share Image
Do you know what's most interesting? Working with the very strong restrictions of the institution. In the Renaissance, the aristocrats would order… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't… — El-P Copy Share Image
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards,… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Painting from life was incredibly important for me because it allowed me to train my eyes to see everything that is there.… — Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Copy Share Image
“Reverence for the natural environment, and experiencing the interconnectedness between all things has long guided me to create watercolor paintings of beauty… — Francene Hart Copy Share Image
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