Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul. — Alexej von Jawlensky Copy Share Image
A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas? — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way,… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I… — Lotte Jacobi Copy Share Image
The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back.… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“The Difference Between a good artist And a great one Is: The novice Will often lay down his tool Or brush Then… — Hafiz Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then,… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
