My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them. — Peter Webber Copy Share Image
Don't paint me as how you see me in your eyes because you still don't know the whole part of me... — Leonora R Aquino Copy Share Image
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
“I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters,” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“Canvas, then you must define the Bitmap upon which drawing will actually be performed. The” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that. — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
I believe that 100, 200, 300 years from now, all these paintings will be around because they're the first paintings of humans… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was… — Monica Drake Copy Share Image
For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be… — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The way I understand composition and form and my ability to enter into material all comes from my disciplines and my commitment… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw.… — David Coverdale Copy Share Image
“SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Unlike painting, sculpture, or music, typefaces must be useful to someone. Fortunately for designers, the digital age has produced new problems to… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“The universe has been painting its creations with many of the same brushes.” “Do” — Nathan Van Coops Copy Share Image
Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it. — Harold Town Copy Share Image
I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“I think the general’s job is harder than the painter’s; canvas doesn’t fight back, after all.” — Django Wexler Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light. — Lola Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
