If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't… — Brandon Sanderson 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
When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which… — Jerome Isaac Friedman Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance.… — Albert Pinkham Ryder 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
In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts,… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
“Know that blank pages feel the urge of the ink as much as tears paint a different pain, changes” — Goitsemang Sandra Mvula Copy Share Image
“To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain. — Douglas Lockwood Copy Share Image
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. — Marie Laurencin Copy Share Image
Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for… — Christopher Willard Copy Share Image
Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of… — Alice Neel 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
“Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
