Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters? — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me. — Judy Dater Copy Share Image
I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes. — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it. — Eddie Cahill Copy Share Image
“I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark... my value unhangable.” — Marina Leigh Duff Copy Share Image
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings.… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
“Unveil the shade of your soul through the paint brush of your life. Let the colors run true, let the canvas be… — Shady Grace Copy Share Image
The '90s weren't my finest years artistically. I wrote some good songs in there, but in terms of my vision of getting… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not… — Daniel B. Shapiro Copy Share Image
My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better… — Deborah Butterfield Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize… — James Ensor Copy Share Image
I will do a lot of research and create a lot of material for use in one painting. And then I go… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“I was Olivia, and I sat in a rowboat oared by Sage along the Tiber River. “If you think the Society is… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or… — Joan Littlewood Copy Share Image