Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy. — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about. — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera… — Nigel Dennis Copy Share Image
“Every artist, whether he is an artist of music, word or paint, has a signature that sets him apart.” — Jennifer Laurens Copy Share Image
“There are vast numbers of portraits of Jesus in the art galleries of this world. These images are often so conflicting that” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing… — Gene Black Copy Share Image
If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
I've had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room.… — Virat Kohli Copy Share Image
“They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early… — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Music is very inspiring to me because "true" music releases a true energy that is just inspiring. It's like when you see… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“I remember the first time I saw my favorite painting, how its fragile beauty caught my breath. And I thought if the… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
Its Vermeer" Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen" "What can I say?" Hale eased behind her… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
