Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have… — Callum Keith Rennie Copy Share Image
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
“Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that… — John Green Copy Share Image
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if… — James Lee Schmidt Copy Share Image
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. — Balthus Copy Share Image
It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It's something you can hold, pore over the lyrics,… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it. — Robert Gober Copy Share Image
Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to… — Fay Faron Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of pictorial evidence from the Highlands, because only the very wealthy had their portraits painted - but there… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
