Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. — Mark Stevens Copy Share Image
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“Every artist, whether he is an artist of music, word or paint, has a signature that sets him apart.” — Jennifer Laurens Copy Share Image
Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings. — Francoise Cachin Copy Share Image
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera… — Nigel Dennis Copy Share Image
“A blank canvas is so abstract that only imagination can fill it. But wait! Don't hang it on the wall like that.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory… — Lorenzo Ghiberti Copy Share Image
When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling.… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I can't even find the perfect brush so I can paint what's going through my mind. Racing 'gainst myself but I'm a… — Drake Copy Share Image
In the far corner, a tenor began to sing, Zsadist's crystal-clear voice sailing up toward the warrior paintings on the ceiling far,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like it's not so much a tradition as a system that has been codified over the centuries starting in the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“An irregular birthmark stood out on the crest of her hip, like a splash of wine on snow. He touched a finger… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We are all artists in everything we do. Art is creating; it is our link that makes us like god. All you… — Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey Copy Share Image
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy. — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about. — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it. — Robert Gober Copy Share Image
I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting. — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience. — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all? — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
