I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
“I end up standing in front of the nearby painting with my arms and legs open wide, flapping them around and doing… — Elle Casey Copy Share Image
It's funny, when things go on the internet now and people say 'that's not real,' well, that's what painting's always done -… — Margaux Williamson Copy Share Image
No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
We had similar interests with Derek Rowan and Paul Hewson; it sounds really pretentious at 12, 13 year old kids were like… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
“And it was as if I’d known that only here would those paints come into their own, and help me. That they… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a flickering sun-struck instance that existed now… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him,… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice. — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
For me, the whole idea of the radically new is tied to a close reconsideration of older sources. I like to give… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable. — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
I started painting, I think when I was in school and I used to do watercolours back then. I attended a class… — Ishita Dutta Copy Share Image
When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
“The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
There was an exchange between me and Andy Warhol. We met, we liked each other, we appreciated each other. He would come… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting. — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter. — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“If you have walked into a museum recently - whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which… — Giorgio Morandi Copy Share Image
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
You can just start shooting things and see how it goes. But time is still money, so you have to know when… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world. — Robert Lyn Nelson Copy Share Image
