I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you… — Common Copy Share Image
“In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“I’d stumbled upon the inner sanctuary of a woman who loved the world. Loved the faces of people she saw. Loved the… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
To me there's something so great about a singer who's very great and successful and does great work even though they don't… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
“He laughed. “What’s to say? Great paintings—people flock to see them, they draw crowds, they’re reproduced endlessly on coffee mugs and mouse… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
“Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
You are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I got interested in set design for the theater. I was interested in architecture, but I was taking… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt… — Stella Vine Copy Share Image
Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Let's talk about that for a moment, about the couple that Yves Saint Laurent and I were. Like all couples we went… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I'm expressing the feelings of mankind today through the Blue Dog. The dog is always having problems of the heart, of growing… — George Rodrigue Copy Share Image
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor...… — Keith Floyd Copy Share Image
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
“You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative. You may be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast;… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The painter's face curdled with scorn "You think I'm proud of this daub?" he said. "You think this is my idea of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Without rules you can't have anything, but you don't want to just be pedantic or obsessive. The painting is finished when it's… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to create an aesthetic that's my own; I'm trying to create a way understanding things through drawing and painting.… — Kysa Johnson Copy Share Image
