The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Come into my lap and sit in the center of your soul. Drink the living waters of memory and give birth to… — Meinrad Craighead Copy Share Image
I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I… — Georges Vantongerloo Copy Share Image
I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
I remember at the time of 9/11 that there were women who went out of their way to escort Muslim women to… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint;… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I love salmon. Of all my fishy friends, I love salmon the best. Or trout. Or tuna. Or smelts. Oh heck. I… — Mallory M. O'Connor Copy Share Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They… — John Ruskin 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
It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
When we sit down to draw or paint the sun's rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have… — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything… — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor… — Lois Mailou Jones Copy Share Image
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
There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love… — Bono Copy Share Image
I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I… — Evan Ross Copy Share Image
Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision - celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't… — Stella Vine Copy Share Image
I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint… — Francois Cavanna Copy Share Image
![“Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.” quote by Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a2e/janet-fitch-717_artist_remember-we-don-t-see-objects-we-see-lig_2839026.jpg)
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