I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell you that art is the most harmless activity of mankind. But I suddenly recalled that art was often… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ...… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Paint,' I said, barely more than a breath. He cocked his head and I swallowed, squaring my shoulders. 'If- if it's not… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I have always been a fan of Salvador Dali, but Amrita Sher-Gil, who was an Indian-Hungarian painter, is another favourite. She was… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has not groomed his life in general towards some definite end cannot possibly arrange his individual actions properly. It is… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found...… — Artemisia Gentileschi Copy Share Image
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings… — Joan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The Difference Between a good artist And a great one Is: The novice Will often lay down his tool Or brush Then… — Hafiz Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then,… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Right," I scoffed, "Alpha Yam Ergo." Adrian nodded solemnly. "A very old and prestigious society." "I've never heard of them," said the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly… — Elizabeth Ross Copy Share Image
A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students.… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
“I asked Geertrui the other day what she thought love is-real love, true love. She said that for her real love is… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took… — James Nares Copy Share Image
“The painting was so vibrant and alive with summertime that it seemed to fill the entire room with light. It depicted a… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
It would be nice if our lives were a canvas and all our decisions were based by painting by the numbers. You… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
“... I think I intuitively suspected that perspective would put me outside the painting. I didn't want that. I wanted to get… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm pretty damn obsessed with Gucci. The fashion. It's like a painting! The advertising is beautiful and I've actually never owned one… — Gucci Westman Copy Share Image
I've been painting and drawing fish since I was very young. My mom found old pictures I did when I was around… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no… — Simon Kapwepwe Copy Share Image
Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
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My paintings used to be so realistic and I found it a little bit boring, especially now that I'm in New York.… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“King of the Ruskin was my show last year, last May, in New College Long Room. I filled that old room with… — Paul Haworth Copy Share Image
Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with… — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
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