The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
When Michael Werner saw a painting of mine, such as Die grosse Nacht im Eimer, which back then nobody wanted and everybody… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
A lot of the most prolific painters died broke and weren't appreciated in their time. I'm trying to remember who exactly I… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
“I was confused by this sudden glare of attention; it was as if the characters in a favorite painting, absorbed in their… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The lion's share of individuals who are thinking about a story covering or paint for their carport, for the most part, envision… — Visit this website for more info Copy Share Image
Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody's going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I feel like I've done Pete Hornberger, and that is a painting I have signed, and I don't need to play that… — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“ 'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished. 'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is,… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff,… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
While it may seem a little mundane, the material realities of realizing the painting actually have a lot to do with how… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“One way to look at a painting—and I use that word as shorthand for visual art in general—is to notice as you… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it… — Anthony Caro Copy Share Image
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were… — Banksy Copy Share Image
When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time... I became aware of the… — Guido Molinari Copy Share Image
I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work,… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Dan moved forward and replaced Jonah at the helm. "I've got a plan!" "That's my man!" The famous grin disappeared as Jonah… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
