One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience. — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting. — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say,… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“With her wild red hair draped around her pallid visage, she could easily be mistaken for a nymph from a Pre-Raphaelite painting.… — Renate Linnenkoper Copy Share Image
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Seven, ten, fifteen, eighteen years old and still there is nothing finer than a blank sheet of paper, the white promise that… — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too.… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Lily Tomlin, Judi Dench, Carol Burnett, Linda Emond, Meryl Streep, Janet Mctyre. I saw all these women on stage, and I experienced… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough,… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
