As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one,… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images. — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If I began to draw myself away from you we’d still be like two mixed colors of paint impossible to separate.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“You don't have a drop of paint on you," I said. "Why is that?" Ranger smiled, liking that he hadn't gotten hit.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“We place too much of ourselves inside art - so we become part of it and never feel quiet again for the… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
Life is like a painting, you can paint it to look like anything... — Hannah Aliyah Edge Copy Share Image
If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet… — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
