In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within… — George Frederic Watts Copy Share Image
My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still,… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto,… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
“I'd painted nearly every surface in the main room. And not with just broad swaths of colour, but with decorations- little images.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I wondered if I would appear on a temple wall painting someday. A blonde Egyptian girl with purple highlights running sideways through… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that gave rise to the type of practice that I - that I do now. I think it was informed… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about… — Cory Arcangel Copy Share Image
When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“I asked why this had impressed him so much, and he said, “You see, those stubborn, long-obscured images are like the layers… — B.E. Scully Copy Share Image
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
“Wait. Like an art museum, or are we talking a history museum? I could tolerate the dinosaur bones and war relics, but… — Victoria Michaels Copy Share Image
People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
“Jubal shrugged. "Abstract design is all right-for wall paper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Minnesotans who bought scenic art usually avoided winter scenes. Hannah didn't find that surprising. Minnesota winters were long. Why would they want… — Joanne Fluke Copy Share Image
“You're getting better, my lady." "Don't patronize me." "No, really, Your Highness. When you started painting five years ago, I could never… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“My dear fellow why have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are. You do anything in the world to gain… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house,… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Painting is the language of the unconscious. It is the language of visualization. It is the language of children. Children think in… — Osho Copy Share Image
The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the principal horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist, but I realized I was more affected by what I read than by what I… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects.… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
![“In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.’ Here [in Watts painting], Hope is blindfolded, seated on a globe and playing a lyre of which all but one of the strings are broken . . . Hope’s attempts to make…” quote by George Frederic Watts](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bb0/george-frederic-watts-96703_anchors_in-the-bible-hebrews-6-19-hope-is-an-anc_2548604.png)
