During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings — Joseph Pisani Copy Share Image
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I… — Vernon Davis Copy Share Image
A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider. — Roger Verge Copy Share Image
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid… — Tiko Kerr Copy Share Image
I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Royce turned to Hadrian. “It’s supposed to make them look tough, but all it really does is make it easy to identify… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“I like to work in watercolor, with as little under-drawing as I can get away with. I like the unpredictability of a… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
“Instead of a blank canvas, school hands kids a coloring book and tells them to stay within the lines.4 What” — Tim Urban Copy Share Image
Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture. — John Marin Copy Share Image
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means. — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting. — Dan Thompson Copy Share Image
The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
“I grab the nearest can of miracle paint this guy is spazzing about and a church key from the paint desk.” — Russ Linton Copy Share Image
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
