“The greater the injury, the greater the fun.” — a celebration of poets Leinad Eibam Summer 2015 Copy Share Image
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all? — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Place a name upon the night One to set your heart alight And to make the darkness bright Paint the sky with… — Enya Copy Share Image
My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it. — Robert Gober Copy Share Image
I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint. — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
I don't paint over my paintings with black paint. I paint black paintings. It isn't because I'm sad, just as I didn't… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
“Glass paint was designed specifically for use on glass, but as it turns out, the paint works on other surfaces, too! That… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning. — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
“I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Men with fine gifts think it worth while to live to paint a few great pictures which shall be looked at and… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by… — Ryan McGinness Copy Share Image
Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
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