We have to pay attention to one another, regardless of how someone may look or act, look again. Looking at people is… — Leah Chase Copy Share Image
“(All those paintings of women, in art galleries, surprised at private moments. Nymph Sleeping. Susanna and the Elders. Woman bathing, one foot… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowd As herds of bellowing buses drive by Love's anguish tightens your… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Everything's a painting, anyway," Fawn said. "That's what I think. We live inside a giant painting, only we can't see who's holding… — Rose Christo Copy Share Image
Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically,… — Jean-Francois Chevrier Copy Share Image
I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me,… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
I would be doomed if I didn't invent humor in my life. When I was young, I had all these punk and… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, the light seemed to arrive from a distinct direction, like the sun slanting through a gap in a curtain, but often… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
In 1984, I was contacted by Michael Taylor, who had won a commission from a sponsor and decided he would like to… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina… — Medardo Rosso Copy Share Image
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
“He is all my art to me now," said the painter gravely. "I sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for the crippling honesty of comedy. "I'm… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“The tan carpet was stiff and black with stripes of dried blood, spattered like a Jackson Pollock canvas. The walls were streaked… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows,… — Mary Leakey Copy Share Image
“I love the French and Italian church paintings from the Middle Ages. But I'm also interested to learn more about who was… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends,… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace... When you see the… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with… — David Salle Copy Share Image
There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I think that the sheer fact that music can raise certain questions or put topics on the agenda has in itself already… — G.W. Sok Copy Share Image
“Practice alternating your focus between the big picture and small detail by allowing your eyes to focus broadly, then narrowing in on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films,… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci had such a playful curiosity. If you read his notebooks, you'll see he's curious about what the tongue of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“All these appeals to art to set herself more in harmony with modern progress and civilisation, and to make herself the mouthpiece… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
[H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more,… — Moyra Davey Copy Share Image
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of… — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
![“[H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's recognized he's gone through R'lyeh, the Sunken City of R'lyeh, and then Cthulhu, the extraterrestrial, calls his band of worshippers home to recognize him as…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/464/paul-laffoley-7077_anti-christ_h-p-lovecraft-is-thrust-into-some-kind-o_1509500.jpg)
