A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are certain people I do want to absolutely dislike me. And I want them to paint me as their enemy. Because… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream… — Leonid Afremov Copy Share Image
It should also be born in mind that the research on 'movement' and the dynamic outlook on the world, which were the… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
“There’s something familiar about the curve of her lower lip. The weight cradled by a soft, slender chin. The bow of her… — A.D. Evans Copy Share Image
You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“Something is always born out of too deep grief. Just when you grope for balance, art is born out of a compelling… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an… — Jason Shawn Alexander Copy Share Image
Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I believe in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Paint wet like it's aroused. So high I can kiss the clouds. I roll up in sour flowers and smoke till I'm… — Killa Kyleon Copy Share Image
I've never considered soundtracks for what I write. Nor have I considered computer drawing or painting. As a painter, I'm still trying… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be… — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Fashion wears many faces; it has the urge to belong to a group - to charm - but also the urge to… — Isabel Toledo Copy Share Image
We had lead emitted in gasoline and in paint, painting generations of housing for an entire century, practically, before it was regulated.… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
If I should have a daughter, instead of 'Mom,' she's gonna call me 'Point B,' because that way she knows that no… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I was in analysis for many years, and one of the things analysis does is open up forbidden territories. It opens up… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
Obviously, there are political operatives that are playing a role. It doesn't mean it shouldn't be denounced. All candidates should say, we… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was… — Ansel Elgort Copy Share Image
Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Having children takes the focus off yourself, which I'm really grateful for. I'm so tired of thinking about myself. I'm sick of… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as… — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art,… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image