Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
This is the swamp as I see it, but what I can’t capture on canvas is you as I see you. No… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
All of depiction is fiction, it's only a question of degree. When we think of images, such as the signing of the… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Nothing is quite beautiful alone: nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He saw the white paper as the great universe of nonexistence. A single stroke would give rise to existence within it. He… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within… — George Frederic Watts Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
“Painted Things I love my work and take pains with it. But today I find the slow pace of composition discouraging. The… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to… — Fay Faron Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“when the Lord built the world he furrowed his brow calculated calculated calculated that is why the world is perfect and uninhabitable… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I would have conversations with European artists. Meaning, people look at my painting and one person would say, "Oh, your painting is… — Michael Chow Copy Share Image
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that "looks like art" and behave in… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to create an aesthetic that's my own; I'm trying to create a way understanding things through drawing and painting.… — Kysa Johnson Copy Share Image
“You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only quick studies of course.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Love is an art, Berk. Just like painting or music. Some painters draw mere lines, scratches on the canvas and call them… — T. Afsin Ilgar Copy Share Image
I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“An object will display the greatest difference of light and shade when it is seen in the strongest light. . . .… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Every time somebody writes a theory about where literature's going, that person is not only contributing thought but nudging things to happen… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. The fools who write articles about me… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it.… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
My worlds are completely different. Painting is a peaceful world, and it's a different vibe than having a great match. You are… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists,… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
“I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. 'Show me what it looked… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
I try to teach a modernist and postmodernist position. On one hand, if you're a painter, you need to know the history… — Tony Tasset Copy Share Image
I want my paintings to give the viewer a true sense of reality - that includes but is not limited to depth,… — David Kassan Copy Share Image
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
![“In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.’ Here [in Watts painting], Hope is blindfolded, seated on a globe and playing a lyre of which all but one of the strings are broken . . . Hope’s attempts to make…” quote by George Frederic Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bb0/george-frederic-watts-96703_anchors_in-the-bible-hebrews-6-19-hope-is-an-anc_2548604.jpg)
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