Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting,… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I think that the whole experience of living, breathing, thinking, and being lost in wonderment is, for me, that of being an… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“People who don’t appreciate art aren’t living a full life. Art, whether it’s music, paint, words, whatever the medium, busts veins of… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical. — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Remind your students today that every piece of work completed is a self-portrait of the one who did it. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Artists,‚Äù he said, ‚Äúare people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Possessing them physically as one would possess a potted plant, a painting, or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual. — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden,… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign… — Gavin Turk Copy Share Image
This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already… — Leon Daudet Copy Share Image
I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was… — Albert Oehlen Copy Share Image
I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies… — Thomas Gainsborough Copy Share Image
Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
