It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death,… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
I had some highlight moments in the early '60s when I used to do a lot of rubbings. I used Afta; it's… — Peter Beard Copy Share Image
I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools.… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“There had been a slight shower of rain the previous night, so the world looked like it was painted overnight. It was… — Tshetrim Tharchen Copy Share Image
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Will you draw… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand. — David Alfaro Siqueiros Copy Share Image
I'd hate to paint with a broad brush, but many Democrats don't feel that we have a crisis in entitlements, and Republicans… — Dave Camp Copy Share Image
Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too… — Tori Amos 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
