“...But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing. — Luc Tuymans Copy Share Image
Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do? — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Snow on one side of the canvas, silence on the other. I’d call that a perfect painting.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything… — Alicia Alonso Copy Share Image
Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so… — Sigmar Polke 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
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
“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
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
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So,… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter. — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves. — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist. — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“An artist is a performer on the canvas. A dancer with a paintbrush. A musician with the paint. A poet in each… — Melissa Regas Copy Share Image
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
“There are as many shades of being in love as there are graduations of colour on cards in the paint shop.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A starving artist has only so many brush stokes before he fades away... — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete. — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
