Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A starving artist has only so many brush stokes before he fades away... — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“There are as many shades of being in love as there are graduations of colour on cards in the paint shop.” — Doris Lessing 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
I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter. — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth,… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
“So you want to know all about me, Who I am What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
“And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
“He laughed. “What’s to say? Great paintings—people flock to see them, they draw crowds, they’re reproduced endlessly on coffee mugs and mouse… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
To me there's something so great about a singer who's very great and successful and does great work even though they don't… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“I’d stumbled upon the inner sanctuary of a woman who loved the world. Loved the faces of people she saw. Loved the… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
