Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
“ That's when I got it. The rough canvas. God paints our bodies over that, over our heart and soul. It's the… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians,… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create… — Jon Favreau Copy Share Image
I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed. — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
My dad is a sculptor and a painter, and mum runs an art gallery, which sells beautiful jewelry and ceramics and paintings… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal.… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
