The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist. — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“An artist is a performer on the canvas. A dancer with a paintbrush. A musician with the paint. A poet in each… — Melissa Regas Copy Share Image
The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves. — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you… — Common Copy Share Image
Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of… — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
“The painter's face curdled with scorn "You think I'm proud of this daub?" he said. "You think this is my idea of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast;… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
