“If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.” — Salvador Dalí Copy Share Image
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The second painting of the Painter, will come out better than the first one. — Hemistich Copy Share Image
I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes. — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory,… — Siegfried Woldhek Copy Share Image
Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings,… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
