I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images. — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint... — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Even when the light at the end does seem faint. You are the creator with the canvas and the paint. It's never… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint. — Joan Mitchell Copy Share Image
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
“An object will display the greatest difference of light and shade when it is seen in the strongest light. . . .… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Spending money on art has always been frowned upon in this country - even earlier, when my and others' paintings cost almost… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
“Art—real art—connects artists, and their art, and those who experience their art, to the metaphysical background of the world, to the imaginal… — Stephen Harrod Buhner Copy Share Image
I like as much time as I can get and I'll do whatever I think is helpful to prepare for a role.… — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
“Favorite painting...?" "Painting? Odalisque," I said. "Really.His non-nude nude. Interesting." It was,to me. Edward's most famous painting of Diana is Troie ,… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
