In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards,… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next. — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose... — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting, — Andrea Illy Copy Share Image
I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Life is a Canvas. Every action of ours is a stroke of paint and at the end, how beautiful our painting is… — RVM Copy Share Image
“Paint speckled her skin like a colourful constellation of freckles.” — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
