“I often paint self-portraits for it is I that know myself best-Freida Kahlo.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too. — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. — Annie Parisse Copy Share Image
“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.” — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. — Nigel Dennis Copy Share Image
President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures… — Rankin Copy Share Image
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There… — R. B. Kitaj Copy Share Image
“The world is my canvas, and my ponytail is my paintbrush. Helen Keller probably had a ponytail too, though my art has… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
