The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter. — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
There's a Diebenkorn painting - 'Ocean Park No. 68' - that is the color of a swimming pool and always reminds me… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea and… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Dipping my bare brush into your garish gold eyes, I draw your dreams close. They dance divinely within, sparking silhouettes alight. (Harboured… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“was no stain left upon it. It was bright, and glistened. As it had killed the painter, so it would kill the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
“I took a course in art last winter. I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like… — Veta Louise Simmons Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively-- because, without this humble appliance, you… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image