As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Painting is the language of the unconscious. It is the language of visualization. It is the language of children. Children think in… — Osho Copy Share Image
Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or… — Sophie Blackall 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
He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal. — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what… — Alva Noe Copy Share Image
“It’s a question of legacy. Who else will do this work but us? The men who rarely include them in retrospectives? The… — Stephanie Dupal Copy Share Image
“But, memory paints impressionistic portraits of the past, enhancing some images and blurring others. To her,” — Monique Martin Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
God knows that we are creative artists when it comes to our lives. On one day, he gives us clay for sculpting,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
