“In the first two decades of the twentieth century, experts advised men to have their kitchens painted apple-green. The experts believed that… — John R. Stilgoe Copy Share Image
Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
That authentic experience that happens both in the artist and in the audience you can classify as a mystical experience. You can… — Janaka Stucky Copy Share Image
... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'm creating my own oasis in my house. I've got a lot of calming, soothing things around my house. The way it's… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“In notes for his treatise on painting, Leonardo recommended to young artists this practice of walking around town, finding people to use… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“During that war we had a word for extreme man-made disorder which was fubar, an acronym for 'fucked up beyond all recognition.'… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for the crippling honesty of comedy. "I'm… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
There is some other form that you contain within yourself that is not will or purpose and, when applied to art, serves… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
“I concentrated on his eyes and his facial expression. Those said a lot about a person. I’d noticed that his eyes changed… — Marysue G. Hobika Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell you that art is the most harmless activity of mankind. But I suddenly recalled that art was often… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Ordinary language fixes the difference between handmade images like Goya's and photographs by the convention that artists "make" drawings and paintings while… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Royce turned to Hadrian. “It’s supposed to make them look tough, but all it really does is make it easy to identify… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
Art wasn't for selling. Actually, we once did have an offer on Double Negative. Things could be sold actually - everything could… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
“After an insight occurs, one must check it out to see if the connections genuinely make sense. The painter steps back from… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Zen brings creativity. And remember, if you want to be one with the creator, you will have to learn some ways of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Echo continued to tap her finger to her chin and created more dots on her face while she stared at the canvas.… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Have you ever stared at a painting so long that the colors blur and you can’t tell what you’re looking at anymore?… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
As we breathe and live, have a conversation, and you look in someone's eyes, and you see a sunset or have an… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
I was given some designer colors for ink pens a long time ago and I haven't used them, and I have some… — Barbara Hammer Copy Share Image
