There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second — Charles Tomlinson Copy Share Image
The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation. — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold. — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
Shes an artist, a painter actually. See that smile on her face? Its her most famous piece! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa. — Mac O'Grady Copy Share Image
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
At some point in life the worlds beauty becomes enough. You dont need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
A film carries six fine arts - it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It's a conjecture… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure… — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject.… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately wanted to paint… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
I held out the painting of the cat and the snake. “It’s a cat and a snake,” Thoth said. Thank you, god… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Does it bother me that some people are burning their own System CDs and taking money out of my pocket? Not really.… — Daron Malakian Copy Share Image
My house is full of paintings by my mother Pam. She was a fantastic, prolific artist but had no confidence in herself,… — Penny Junor Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The Master Thinker is an artist and is careful to paint only the divine designs upon the canvas of his mind; and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
“She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.” — Akshay Vasu Copy Share Image
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.” — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you. — John Currin Copy Share Image
On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“When I look at you I want to be a painter because to see such a beauty and not being able to… — Galib Mammadov Copy Share Image
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
