The successful painter is continually painting still life. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means. — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I… — Vernon Davis Copy Share Image
A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider. — Roger Verge Copy Share Image
“Instead of a blank canvas, school hands kids a coloring book and tells them to stay within the lines.4 What” — Tim Urban Copy Share Image
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates… — Nita Engle Copy Share Image
In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
“She had never seen me draw–because not drawing and forgetting everything I knew about art, I thought, was the magic key to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie… — James Franco Copy Share Image
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
Bruegel has these paintings of people just... interacting with each other. And there's this special wink - it's not a celebration of… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it.… — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
“When he worked on this painting, he felt sometimes as if he were flying, as if the world of galleries and parties… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
![“I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really…” quote by Robert Barry](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4ab/robert-barry-3413_art_i-mean-part-of-the-justification-for-art_3173043.jpg)
