“Nothing is clear now. Something must be the matter with my way of viewing things. I have no middle view. Either I… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
For several years I've been writing 100-word pieces. More recently I've been putting them together in groups of two and three. I… — Jim Moore Copy Share Image
I know this is a bit redundant, but it is really hard to explain just how loud Tiger Stadium is when you're… — Wright Thompson Copy Share Image
The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign… — Gavin Turk Copy Share Image
I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I've painted, but I've also done graphics since as long as I can remember. So even people with little to spend could… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as… — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
“A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Somebody comes to my house and admires what I've done, sometimes I just give it to them. Because I don't want to… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It is true that the Drive-By Media is not spending a lot of time covering the Donald Trump Middle East trip. The… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story.… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Who are you, Martin Eden? he demanded of himself in the looking- glass, that night when he got back to his room.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
“I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. 'Show me what it looked… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
“cautiously. “Mark Rothko? Is that when he got Alizée’s paintings from Eleanor Roosevelt?” “He gets the painting from the other one.” I… — B.A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what… — Alva Noe Copy Share Image
The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Whatever they are, can Comics be "Art"? Of course they can. The "Art" in a piece is something independent of genre, form,… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be… — Gerald Brommer Copy Share Image
Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according… — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
![“My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all…” quote by John Constable](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f10/john-constable-11301_academy_my-picture-a-boat-passing-a-lock-1823-6_1324899.jpg)
![“The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.” quote by Al Pacino](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aa0/al-pacino-1656_art_the-interesting-thing-about-this-is-i-do_376188.jpg)
