If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
“Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image of the Creator's own. The… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I've been creating in some capacity forever. It was always usually painting and drawing, but I've been exploring more video and sculpture… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I don't really know what's going to happen 10,000 years from now. We've been biologically modern for, what, almost 200,000 years? Let's… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
“You see, the catch about portrait painting— I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start painting portraits till… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back.… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bight and finished product mended with bluff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
I have a certain amount of creative energy, and it used to go painting. Now most of it goes to music. I… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Kolchak nodded, 'Right, because that would make sense." He took off his hat and crumpled it against his hip. 'When I lived… — Jason Henderson Copy Share Image
“The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the building. But to… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Elinor retreated to the terrace where the night air on her skin felt like a hot bath. She was hurt, it had… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
If women have become innocent victims, if women running around today are unable to protect themselves, if the picture that we're painting,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
Students want to know, "Are you painting by the numbers, or are you really present as a human being to what you… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I met Keith Haring at SVA college where he was having an art show, later we had a group art show at… — Steve Kaufman Copy Share Image
It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves.… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Morbid anatomy is essential to training and research, but leads many doctors into thinking that life is an agitation in something essentially… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I had my first exhibition in September, 2012. This was when I first introduced the public to my style of the incorporation… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
![“If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind of popular stereotypical image of the black figure, in both its flatness and slightly comic edge. To take that image as a starting point and to render it in a proto-classical medium, like egg…” quote by Kerry James Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/584/kerry-james-marshall-5157_art_if-you-look-at-the-image-portrait-of-the_829024.jpg)
![“In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years, and when I came back, I tried to get into the painting classes which I wanted, but because of all the returned GIs [the GI Bill], everyone was in school and the classes were all full. So I…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e62/warren-mackenzie-4654_army_in-the-middle-of-my-second-year-at-schoo_674284.jpg)
