There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“On the wall facing him was an oil painting of two Spitfires taking off, a none-too-subtle reminder of the prime minister’s war… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality… — Paddy Johnson Copy Share Image
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that the baker had an honest response to the painting. Van Ruijven tried too hard when he looked… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
This is the swamp as I see it, but what I can’t capture on canvas is you as I see you. No… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you… — Euan Uglow Copy Share Image
“The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies… Art is the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You never, ever leave art school. It's important to keep finding inspiration. I look at YouTube videos and think, 'How would I… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
“So build yourself as beautiful as you want your world to be. Wrap yourself in light then give yourself away with your… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger,… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup.… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“His drawings were not originals then, only copies. He must have been doing them as a sort of retirement hobby, he was… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
“My theory is that the purpose of art is to transmit universal truths of a sort, but of a particular sort, that… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
She paints a pretty picture, But her story has a twist, Her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist,so… — Levita Charin Copy Share Image
“That man, especially when he slept, when his features were motionless, showed me my own face, my mask, the flawlessly pure image… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
“I wanted to design the house around my body and my needs, instead of following the pattern that I'd fallen into in… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
For me, Corsica is a place that I visited with my friends, maybe five or six times over the years, and I'm… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic ideals emerging from Zen art focus heavily on naturalness, on the emphasis of man's relation to nature. The Zen artists, as… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue,… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
In March 2010, I attended an art opening for Kimberly Brooks's show 'The Stylist Project' in Los Angeles. It was a starry… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
![“That man, especially when he slept, when his features were motionless, showed me my own face, my mask, the flawlessly pure image of my corpse […] in a state of perfect repose, this resemblance was strikingly evident, and what is death, if not a face at peace – its artistic perfection? Life only…” quote by Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b98/vladimir-nabokov-198_art_that-man-especially-when-he-slept-when-h_1266786.jpg)
