In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say,… — John Glover Copy Share Image
Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“Every time I messed up, I was tempted to start over. But starting over wouldn’t have erased the mistakes I made. So… — Shireen Ayache Copy Share Image
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
You know what else is hot?" said a nameless blonde as she put her arm around the one black girl. "What?" "Bisexuals."… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship… — Euell Gibbons Copy Share Image
I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
I'm working hard to have a good life. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas.… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
You can be zany and funny or you can do something that really has some depth to it and serious, so there's… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly… — Thomas Sadoski Copy Share Image
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn,… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it -… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for… — Herwarth Walden Copy Share Image
I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think… — Louise L. Hay Copy Share Image
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two… — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and… — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that… — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The firelight danced on his mask, warming the gold, setting the emeralds glinting. Such colour and variation- colours I didn't know the… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
