My parents were open about sex. And my dad makes paintings that have a sexual component and it still scares me. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting. — Robert Ryan Copy Share Image
My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative. — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other. — N. C. Wyeth Copy Share Image
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything through all of this, it's that each and every day is a canvas waiting to be painted -… — Craig Sager Copy Share Image
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer… — A. Alfred Taubman Copy Share Image
We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
My first black-on-black picture was 'The Portrait of an Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self.' I started using it as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Each of us, I think, adopts a comfortable and familiar era or place in which to plant ourselves; and from then on,… — Daniel D. Victor Copy Share Image
I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image