With a stroke of love on the canvas of my soul I'm painting a perfect world with shades of Michelangelo With each… — Belinda Carlisle Copy Share Image
“He was occupied with the forming of a pattern out of the manifold chaos of life, and the materials with which he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the… — Jose Clemente Orozco Copy Share Image
How would you paint me? If you were a artist how would you paint me? With deep solid strokes or your brush… — Christy Ann Martine Copy Share Image
“You might as well get one thing straight. I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in the relationships of color or form… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
I've been on the edge of everything, like one of those characters at the side of a Brueghel painting with a warty… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“These trends culminate in the Narmer Palette. Its very form harks back to a time when wandering cattle herders lived a seminomadic… — Toby A.H. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid… — John Currin Copy Share Image
“He's often wished that he could capture the full essence of each woman's laugh on canvas, but he settles instead, on watching… — Adam Gallari Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion,… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“Great works of art in all cultures succeed in capturing within the constraints of their form both the pathos of anguish and… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I didn't realize how much the paint was going to affect how I moved and how I walked. And it wasn't something… — Finn Balor Copy Share Image
“It is in Keats that the artistic spirit of this century first found its absolute incarnation. And these pre-Raphaelites, what were they?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed,… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Eystein had also resorted to a weird form of trickery: among his decorations of wood or wool, gold or velvet, he would… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming,… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think that the exchange is very important. Before I did the exhibition in Shanghai, I was a judge for the John… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Donnelley was lifting his shirt away from the torn flesh in his side. He was cranked around, trying to assess the damage… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
“I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I bought a painting in Madrid on my first trip there too and a lot of people say, 'Well it's not the… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“However blissful it is being a soul without a body in the realm of the dead, so too is being a body… — orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because… — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Copy Share Image
You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
