Vasari has been a trusted friend on my painting journey for the last 12 years. Vasari is hands down the best oil… — David Kassan Copy Share Image
I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but… — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of… — Thomas S. Buechner Copy Share Image
The patient needs to believe that they can keep the fire while being medicated. The doctors must tell them, "I understand that… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
If you look at the offense like a fancy car, the offensive line is the engine. Even though we might have nice… — Mike Tice Copy Share Image
I create books for six-year-olds. I don't know why that time of my life was so important to me, but no matter… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did… — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful… — Albert Oehlen Copy Share Image
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they… — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great… — George Frederic Watts Copy Share Image
There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind… — Kami Garcia 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
Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well… — Isaac Slade Copy Share Image
Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first… — Liz Vassey Copy Share Image
I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
“The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. One store owner… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
“Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that… — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
You know how to paint a room real fast? Just put paint rollers on your feet and then somehow figure out how… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . .… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
