“For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference. — Fred Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting. — Rene Huyghe Copy Share Image
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could… — John Berger Copy Share Image
An artist's initial broad stroke is always most impactful, and obsessively adding layer upon layer of paint to fill in details often… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.' — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of… — Guido Palau Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“However," he continued, "this canvas is preferable to the paintings of that varlet Rubens, with his mountains of Flemish flesh sprinkled with… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“For as we would wish that a painter who is to draw a beautiful face, in which there is yet some imperfection,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Leonardo was renowned as a painter, and Michelangelo (thanks to his Battle of the Centaurs and the David) was known for portraying… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
“A painter,” he said, as though the word were an insult. “I’m a writer .” “You’re a writer ? I’m a writer.”… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
What inspires me to paint is life, my emotions, through my paintings I want people to understand that life isn't always happy… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that great and foolish excess can come into prices of common stocks in the aggregate. They are… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“It showed a tiny baby girl floating in a clear glass vessel. The baby held a silver rose in one hand, a… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I heard the car door shut and then Fabian's voice. "You won't believe what I found around the edge of your property,"… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“In The Chamber of Secrets film, Dumbledore has a portrait on his wall of Gandalf the Grey from Lord of the Rings!” — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I had earlier done a few paintings on Durga because I am fascinated by her. — Sushmita Sen Copy Share Image
“Paint yourself with the colors of your love. Hang your paintings on the walls of your desires.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
No painting can tell the truth of a single instant; no snapshot can do anything else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
