We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful. — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too. — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. — Annie Parisse Copy Share Image
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“I called, my voice false-sounding and hoarse, slipping the painting into an extra pillowcase and hiding it under the bed before hurrying… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
When you step inside a set and transform into a character, it's your first brush with that role. It doesn't matter who… — Aditi Rao Hydari Copy Share Image
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. — John Dyer Copy Share Image
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
“I drew a self-portrait of myself, drawn with my eyes closed from a memory someone else may or may not have had… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if… — Ronny Cox Copy Share Image
I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and… — William Henry Jackson Copy Share Image
“I was a masterpiece; a painting in itself. He was changing me, molding me, and making me into something brand new. I… — Evelyn Deshane Copy Share Image
