What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
When I was in art school, I worried that being a painter seemed like it could be an elusive dream, and fashion… — Cynthia Rowley Copy Share Image
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot… — Prince William Copy Share Image
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other. — Jack Welpott Copy Share Image
I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it.… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848) — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but… — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the… — Margaret Keane Copy Share Image
