There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
“I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
I think of my life as divided between a lot of different periods. I grew up in the country, but as I… — Reed Krakoff Copy Share Image
I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
“Women, the most beautiful things in the world,” answers the model. As if it’s the only thing worth painting, as if everyone… — Kitsy Clare Copy Share Image
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go?… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
“When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
I think creativity is something that best happens when you have clear parameters. If you're not confined by anything then it's meaningless.… — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
“The masters must be copied over and over again," Degas said, "and it is only after proving yourself a good copyist that… — Degas Copy Share Image
Well painting is certainly my main thing. I will keep doing that for the rest of my life, but if I become… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
“The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way:… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint...… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“..the brave picture we have of humans as rational beings is utterly misleading, a kind of photograph of our surface composure and… — Arnold Weinstein Copy Share Image
It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting.… — James Nares Copy Share Image
“Like my maestro, Juan Ribero, she believed that photography and painting are not competing arts but basically different: the painter interpets reality,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“An object will display the greatest difference of light and shade when it is seen in the strongest light. . . .… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Spending money on art has always been frowned upon in this country - even earlier, when my and others' paintings cost almost… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
“Art—real art—connects artists, and their art, and those who experience their art, to the metaphysical background of the world, to the imaginal… — Stephen Harrod Buhner Copy Share Image
Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I like as much time as I can get and I'll do whatever I think is helpful to prepare for a role.… — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
“Favorite painting...?" "Painting? Odalisque," I said. "Really.His non-nude nude. Interesting." It was,to me. Edward's most famous painting of Diana is Troie ,… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
