I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I…

— Anthony Hopkins

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

— Miles Davis

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

— Pierre Loti

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting…

— Damian Loeb

To make music I rely on other people, which is good - that's the main difference in painting and music at this stage. They…

— Danny Fox

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

— Walter J. Phillips

Music is sound, vibrations, whereas paintings are vibrations of whatever you pick up. It's not actually an energy vibration you get from a groovy…

— George Harrison

I'm very interested in variations.

— Jim Jarmusch

I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

— Jim Jarmusch

To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other, and they're…

— Jim Jarmusch

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake…

— John French Sloan

Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There is no…

— Billy Zane

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as…

— Ben Shahn

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly…

— Edward Lucie-Smith