I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush. — Jil Sander Copy Share Image
Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall? — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few... — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet. — Yvette Mimieux Copy Share Image
When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things. — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there.… — Bobby Berk Copy Share Image
“The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le… — Simon winchester Copy Share Image
The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff 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
I've been creating in some capacity forever. It was always usually painting and drawing, but I've been exploring more video and sculpture… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist, but I realized I was more affected by what I read than by what I… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects.… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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