There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between… — James Wan Copy Share Image
I moved in with my grandma when I was 17 and she had this giant bookshelf and it was fascinating to me.… — Christian Madsen Copy Share Image
One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men. — Henri Michaux Copy Share Image
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint,… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?'… — Hasan M. Elahi Copy Share Image
I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you… — Clementine Hunter Copy Share Image
Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it… — Anthony Caro Copy Share Image
The minute you start getting in trouble, you can't try to do new stuff. You can't try to make a nasty pitch… — Mark Mulder Copy Share Image
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I know so many kids who literally are, like, Instagram-famous. They have done nothing but post pictures on Instagram. And they have… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
