“It was as if I was in a picture, a flat canvas, and everything around me was flat, me painted on like… — Tim Relf Copy Share Image
Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself. — Jean Fautrier Copy Share Image
The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous… — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone. — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white… — Norbert Bisky Copy Share Image
I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“I love painting. I love drawing. I’m never let down, even when the picture isn’t exactly what I want. I can keep… — Kayla Cagan Copy Share Image
“painted in weather-colors now. With brushes dipped in nature’s palette. Mossgreen. Earth-brown. Crumbleblack” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,… — James Keller Copy Share Image
