Life is like a canvas. It begins blank and every day is like another brush stroke. — Babloo Copy Share Image
Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them. — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place. — Robert Regis Dvorak Copy Share Image
I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film. — Nicole Nielsen Horanyi Copy Share Image
I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted… — Caravaggio Copy Share Image
Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records… — Charles Sheeler Copy Share Image
I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music,… — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
“The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bight and finished product mended with bluff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have a certain amount of creative energy, and it used to go painting. Now most of it goes to music. I… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create… — Arnold Friberg 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
“You see, the catch about portrait painting— I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start painting portraits till… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
