The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal. — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting. — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting. — Andrew McDermott Copy Share Image
For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour. — Katherine Bernhardt Copy Share Image
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment. — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The idea of taking a brand that already exists and making a really poor-looking version of it, with acrylic or puffy paint,… — Hunx Copy Share Image
All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I constantly modify myself. There are downfalls to that because you are constantly trying to figure out who you are, but at… — Chloe Zhao Copy Share Image
And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I'm happy that the evolution of art in the past 25 years, and the place of art in global culture-and even finance-has… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
