“Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop. — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color. — Joseph Raffael Copy Share Image
“This is the way of our work: We cannot help but color it with the paint of our feelings, both good and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“I lost track of time when I was in the studio painting. I will get lost in the canvas. It was a… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it… — Sarah Jeffery Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the… — Elizabeth Neel 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
Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
“Painting is the language of the unconscious. It is the language of visualization. It is the language of children. Children think in… — Osho Copy Share Image
Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house,… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“the principal horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven. — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image