It's like a puzzle or a painting or music. When I ski, it's like a song. I can hear the rhythm in… — Mikaela Shiffrin Copy Share Image
“Who a person becomes later in life, how he lives, how he dies, cloud's people's memories of him, spinning and skewing-distorting-their portraits… — Deborah Heiligman Copy Share Image
Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Artists have a habit of becoming what they practice on the canvas. Who knows when it began? When he discovered that the… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship,… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“God Is The Artist Of Your Landscape Will things always work out in the way you hope and want? Of course not!… — Cheryl Zelenka Copy Share Image
“I had this dream that my life was a rolling canvas. Everyday it rolled off the sheet, bleached white, into the beach… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“My descendants will manage without my portrait' she smiled. Anyway they'll have plenty of photographs of me. To this our famous conductor… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and… — Mickalene Thomas Copy Share Image
One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I'm happy that the evolution of art in the past 25 years, and the place of art in global culture-and even finance-has… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
