But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of… — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
“He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
If you can just focus on creating your art whether that's music or writing a book or painting trust me it is… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on… — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation,… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
God knows that we are creative artists when it comes to our lives. On one day, he gives us clay for sculpting,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I spent three years there and encountered great teachers who gave me enough stimulation to last me for the rest of my… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
“What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see and think and feel, you don't think,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
“Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
When I get a script and do my work, and then show up on set and work, it's the same zone that… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Frank Marshall Davis, the former Communist who was Obama’s mentor in Hawaii, was so radical that he opposed President Truman’s Marshall Plan… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Whether it is gun control lobby, health care lobby, or abortion, pro-choice lobby, whatever it is, people are always trying to say… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer.… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
“But what cannot be taught, fortunately or unfortunately, is the creative, expressive side of art. Most good teachers of drawing, painting, ect.,… — Edward Chase Copy Share Image
There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“expensive paint jobs in history. Michelangelo began at the top of the wall and slowly worked his way down for more than… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
My daughter makes great jewellery and my son wants to pursue engineering. They've both been indoctrinated by the school of Linley. People… — David Linley Copy Share Image
From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some… — Hokusai Katsushika Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
![“It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize. Pickman was a real painter who lived between 1888 and 1926. Now, there's a question mark [gesturing toward the writing in the margins of the…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cf6/paul-laffoley-7077_certain_it-s-called-pickman-s-mephitic-models-ba_2476255.jpg)
