In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting. — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture -… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).'… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't get the value of the art or the painting you buy. The value you get from it is on… — Lemar Copy Share Image
It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me. — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I had a wife, kids and a mortgage and my acting career was nowhere, so I was painting and decorating people's homes. — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas. — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of my skin and my face, and I have no problem not wearing makeup. I don't wear makeup because… — Zendaya Copy Share Image
Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other;… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“I have zero tolerance for the use of AI in any aspect of human creative endeavor. We can make a separate space… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting. — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
“So perhaps the reason I shuddered at the idea of writing something about 'Christian art' is that to paint a picture or… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman. — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr Copy Share Image
“For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a… — Balthus Copy Share Image
