“Remember, the masterpiece of your life is perpetually in progress—each date a fresh stroke on your canvas.” — Léon RocheBlance Copy Share Image
Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the… — Sylvester Stallone 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
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
“The subtle hues of gold and yellow and the fresh greens and the pepper red seemed to spiral into a kaleidoscope of… — Jeffry R. Halverson Copy Share Image
When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting. — Kanye West 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
Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting.… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Alas, I had no power, at that time, to combat the flat refusal of many cover departments to put people of color… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“You’ve got to live right, too. It’s the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
