“Paint the canvas of your dreams with the blood of your sweat. You are the Picasso of your own life.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration. — Peter Paul Rubens Copy Share Image
I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“I can draw like it’s nobody’s business. I use my door as a canvas, so don’t knock, because it’s nobody’s business.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings. — Aisling Bea Copy Share Image
Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
It is a painting that exposes in oils what Chekhov so often did in print: sunlight mocking a dark isolation of the… — Alexandra Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you… — Clementine Hunter Copy Share Image
I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint...… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity… — John Berger Copy Share Image
It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting.… — James Nares Copy Share Image
“Like my maestro, Juan Ribero, she believed that photography and painting are not competing arts but basically different: the painter interpets reality,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“Eystein had also resorted to a weird form of trickery: among his decorations of wood or wool, gold or velvet, he would… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think that the exchange is very important. Before I did the exhibition in Shanghai, I was a judge for the John… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
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