Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands. — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing. — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever. — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“...But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
It seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values (assuming that the canvas is white), and… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working… — Billy Williams Copy Share Image
“You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative. You may be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor...… — Keith Floyd Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I'm expressing the feelings of mankind today through the Blue Dog. The dog is always having problems of the heart, of growing… — George Rodrigue Copy Share Image
