I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished… — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for… — Herwarth Walden Copy Share Image
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy. — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter. — Hokusai Copy Share Image
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction. — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
