I'm one of those people who can't sit still. I like to be doing something. I cook; I've been painting. — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art. — Richard Wollheim Copy Share Image
It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own... — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings — George Tooker Copy Share Image
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I don't really know what's going to happen 10,000 years from now. We've been biologically modern for, what, almost 200,000 years? Let's… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
“You see, the catch about portrait painting— I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start painting portraits till… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back.… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter best known for her self portraits, was an icon. — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it. — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment. — Peter Paul Rubens Copy Share Image
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“A portrait can change its character depending on where it is placed and what light it receives.” — Gabriella Bennett Copy Share Image
No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting. — Ron Parker Copy Share Image
It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself. — Astrid Kirchherr Copy Share Image
