“I grab the nearest can of miracle paint this guy is spazzing about and a church key from the paint desk.” — Russ Linton Copy Share Image
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing. — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause. — Su Shi Copy Share Image
The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting. — Dan Thompson Copy Share Image
I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look.… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like 'hey there buddy' and 'oh, look what… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
“Rahel thought of the someone who had taken the trouble to go up there with cans of paint, white for the clouds,… — Arundhati Roy; God of Small Things Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I was actually dumbfounded by how some artists talked to each other. For example, it was a normal night at a bar,… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If… — Ian K. Smith Copy Share Image
The only way to get change is not through the courts or — heaven forbid — the politicians, but through a change… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
