I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you… — John Marin Copy Share Image
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first… — Gabriel Lippmann Copy Share Image
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I love movies, don't get me wrong. But I don't go to the cinema. I see movies at the end of the… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I think we all go through times in our lives when we decide, "I'm going to try something else." I tried filmmaking… — Samuel Bayer Copy Share Image
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
We've all been there - you find something moving, you commission a painting. I know one wall of my living room is… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
I don't try to force-feed it or put any things on the images until I'm making a painting. It's not photorealism. Photorealism's… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way. — Rita Ackermann Copy Share Image
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
“I do not possess the ability to draw or paint. I can’t sing or dance. I can’t knit or sew. But I… — Aubrey Becker Copy Share Image
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
