I have a certain amount of creative energy, and it used to go painting. Now most of it goes to music. I… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I asked why this had impressed him so much, and he said, “You see, those stubborn, long-obscured images are like the layers… — B.E. Scully Copy Share Image
With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
“Wait. Like an art museum, or are we talking a history museum? I could tolerate the dinosaur bones and war relics, but… — Victoria Michaels Copy Share Image
People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jubal shrugged. "Abstract design is all right-for wall paper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
“You're getting better, my lady." "Don't patronize me." "No, really, Your Highness. When you started painting five years ago, I could never… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Minnesotans who bought scenic art usually avoided winter scenes. Hannah didn't find that surprising. Minnesota winters were long. Why would they want… — Joanne Fluke Copy Share Image
“My dear fellow why have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are. You do anything in the world to gain… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
“Painting is the language of the unconscious. It is the language of visualization. It is the language of children. Children think in… — Osho Copy Share Image
Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house,… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“the principal horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
“Morbid anatomy is essential to training and research, but leads many doctors into thinking that life is an agitation in something essentially… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I had my first exhibition in September, 2012. This was when I first introduced the public to my style of the incorporation… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
It's like a puzzle or a painting or music. When I ski, it's like a song. I can hear the rhythm in… — Mikaela Shiffrin Copy Share Image
“Who a person becomes later in life, how he lives, how he dies, cloud's people's memories of him, spinning and skewing-distorting-their portraits… — Deborah Heiligman Copy Share Image
Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
