Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway. — Winslow Homer Copy Share Image
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious. — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head. — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting,… — Mike D Copy Share Image
“Giacometti said something that I really liked: you never finish a painting, you abandon it. His paintings are not finished; their potential… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found a new life in painting, maybe because I think I've found myself. I'm so much more comfortable with myself now… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
We're an industry obsessed with the storytelling side of things, the content. And then we got obsessed with the canvas. Is it… — David Droga Copy Share Image
“If you use too much paint, you'll not only obscure your savvy completely, but most everything else in life will become dull… — Ingrid Law Copy Share Image
A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have… — Max Kellerman Copy Share Image
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
I was shooting lots of large format portraits then but I've since changed to digital, where you have so much more control.… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
