I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table. — Cat Deeley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words. — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful. — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head. — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very,… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
I love it when people come in my house and ask for my paintings off the wall, and I have to tell… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really'… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.” — Danny Gregory Copy Share Image
“My dear fellow why have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are. You do anything in the world to gain… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I asked why this had impressed him so much, and he said, “You see, those stubborn, long-obscured images are like the layers… — B.E. Scully Copy Share Image
“Wait. Like an art museum, or are we talking a history museum? I could tolerate the dinosaur bones and war relics, but… — Victoria Michaels Copy Share Image
With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
“Jubal shrugged. "Abstract design is all right-for wall paper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
