When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing. — Luc Tuymans Copy Share Image
Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do? — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“Snow on one side of the canvas, silence on the other. I’d call that a perfect painting.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Of course, my painting outfit has to be the focus of the shoot to promote a designer, or if I wear my… — Rita Ackermann Copy Share Image
We've all been there - you find something moving, you commission a painting. I know one wall of my living room is… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Let's talk about that for a moment, about the couple that Yves Saint Laurent and I were. Like all couples we went… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I got interested in set design for the theater. I was interested in architecture, but I was taking… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt… — Stella Vine Copy Share Image
Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Somebody comes to my house and admires what I've done, sometimes I just give it to them. Because I don't want to… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
