I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside. — John Dyer Copy Share Image
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul. — Richard Ellmann Copy Share Image
Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings — Joseph Pisani Copy Share Image
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Creating things. I love the idea of creation and creativity. Whether it's a character, a short film, a piece of music, a… — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream,… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home… — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself.… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar… — Hans Richter Copy Share Image
The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
