A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness. — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers. — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting… — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a… — Julie Harris Copy Share Image
When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end -… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“A young house painter who fails miserably in his choice of profession is capable, also for a period of twenty years, of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh,… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry,"… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
