Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create. — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. — Danny Kaye Copy Share Image
“From Portrait of a Landscape I think art only exists when it's being made. It's like a flower. Once picked, it starts… — Daniel D. Watkins Copy Share Image
“Oil paints were wiser to the human condition, understanding our imperfections and giving us enough time to rework ourselves until we made… — S. Walden Copy Share Image
When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait… — Carole Katchen Copy Share Image
I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You can't just sit back and think you're gonna pack the paint in and win games. You've gotta guard that three-point line. — David Fizdale Copy Share Image
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting. — Marcel Dzama Copy Share Image
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on… — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
“Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image of the Creator's own. The… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like… — Millard Drexler Copy Share Image
