When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats.… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
The idea of taking a brand that already exists and making a really poor-looking version of it, with acrylic or puffy paint,… — Hunx Copy Share Image
It's strange with graffiti. You put a lot out, but you don't get that much back because not many people know who's… — KAWS Copy Share Image
“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished… — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
“I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.” — Leanna Renee Hieber Copy Share Image
“I sit at an empty table after the lunch rush and turn to the last assignment in my journal. This one’s the… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you” — Shannon Dermott Copy Share Image
It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects. — James Turrell Copy Share Image
Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I have been brought up around art. Even now, when I travel, I love going to museums and spend hours in front… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
“Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren't going to earn… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her. — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
“To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the… — Cassandra Clare 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
The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
