Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'. — Albert Wolff Copy Share Image
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. — Elizabeth Murray Copy Share Image
I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“The masters must be copied over and over again," Degas said, "and it is only after proving yourself a good copyist that… — Degas Copy Share Image
Well painting is certainly my main thing. I will keep doing that for the rest of my life, but if I become… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
“The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way:… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“..the brave picture we have of humans as rational beings is utterly misleading, a kind of photograph of our surface composure and… — Arnold Weinstein Copy Share Image
