Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master;… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“For a moment, I saw that set of paints Elain had once bought me with the extra money she'd saved. The red,… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The time is a thing; you don't have so much time. A good trick is to try and think about a way… — Thomas McDonell Copy Share Image
Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“The canvas of your life can reflect infinite beauty depending on the colors you opt to splash on it.” — Pooja Ruprell Copy Share Image
The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality. — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Each painting, I feel like I kind of might have gotten something. If I feel like I totally got it, there's probably… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, "I don't like this painting." But then I wake up in the morning, look at it… — Rebecca Horn Copy Share Image
To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot… — George Will Copy Share Image
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image