When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say,… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings. — Aisling Bea Copy Share Image
It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a… — Banksy Copy Share Image
You know how to paint a room real fast? Just put paint rollers on your feet and then somehow figure out how… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“How long would a child last in this environment that is depicted in your paintings? It seems the child would need a… — Annie Owens Copy Share Image
“I saw a painting once where the artist had actually done that--signed his work in blood. ... When I saw that, I… — Neil Bartlett Copy Share Image
Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else. — Nigel Barker Copy Share Image
“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,” — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.” — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was at Home Depot with my dad looking for paint when I got the call to open for Taylor Swift. That… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it. — Ronald Sukenick Copy Share Image
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
