But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work. — Marie Windsor Copy Share Image
What I love doing is creating a room, with attractive paintings and colours and furnishings - very much my mother. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings? — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it… — Richard Pousette-Dart Copy Share Image
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“The tan carpet was stiff and black with stripes of dried blood, spattered like a Jackson Pollock canvas. The walls were streaked… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina… — Medardo Rosso Copy Share Image
In 1984, I was contacted by Michael Taylor, who had won a commission from a sponsor and decided he would like to… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
“He is all my art to me now," said the painter gravely. "I sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more,… — Moyra Davey Copy Share Image
People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
[H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“He looked like a painting in restoration - that at some point in his life he had been beautiful.” — Tor Udall Copy Share Image
I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“I just bought a can of brown paint. It’s more expensive than coffee, but I really hit the wall after I chug… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.” — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils. — Chris Zylka Copy Share Image
Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface, — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
In 2005, I worked as a scenic painter for a while when I was taking a break from music. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
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