Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or… — Joan Littlewood Copy Share Image
It is not just that it is profoundly offensive to the leaders and people of a democratic Germany to paint Hitler on… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I couldn't get a job acting all the time and there were down periods where I could take photographs or paint. I… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas. — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting… — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
“Make a good gallery! Your names and your photos give you a unique identity. Make and maintain a good name in the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the… — Jeffrey Smart Copy Share Image
“For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
