“Imagine your life is a big canvas. Picture it in your mind and think about the beginnning of your painting of life.You're… — Stephen Biro Copy Share Image
All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“And although it was in a hospital that she lay and I sat next to her—it is always that eternal poetry of… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Whatever they are, can Comics be "Art"? Of course they can. The "Art" in a piece is something independent of genre, form,… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I was always interested in drawing and painting. I enrolled in college to study painting. But I didn't have any livelihood when… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
“... I think I intuitively suspected that perspective would put me outside the painting. I didn't want that. I wanted to get… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else.… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
I don't really know what's going to happen 10,000 years from now. We've been biologically modern for, what, almost 200,000 years? Let's… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence?… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no… — Henry de Vere Stacpoole Copy Share Image
“Why then did she do it? She looked at the canvas, lightly scored with running lines. It would be hung in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's obvious that I must explain what I want from an actor, but I don't want to discuss everything I ask him… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
“Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowd As herds of bellowing buses drive by Love's anguish tightens your… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
“The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised… — Dore Ashton Copy Share Image
My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
What interested me in film was the image-making aspect of it. So, I went to school in cinematography. I was really convinced… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
“You’re so…different when you work.” “Different bad?” “Just different. You really are only seeing me as a blob of flesh.” Xander shook… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“look at the painting again. Despite the obvious differences, this girl is deeply, achingly familiar. In her I see myself at twelve… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Here, in this painting, in these (hopefully) creative meditations, you will see teh same sky and the same sun, the same story… — N. D. Wilson Copy Share Image
No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
This is what the Democrats are fighting for. They're fighting for you not to have a job and still have health care… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image