When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed...… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
“It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how… — Reed Hundt Copy Share Image
The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
A background can be painted in the same range of values as the foreground by reversing the light effect. In the shadow… — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
you give me fever from miles around ill pick you up in my car and well paint the toown — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint,… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Don't you love it when people in school are like, “I'm a bad test taker”? You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard,… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
When you're doing something like body paint or a nude shoot, you're making yourself very vulnerable, and you're really trusting people to… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture? — Leven Rambin Copy Share Image
