Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the… — Jack White Copy Share Image
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career,… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part… — Frantisek Kupka Copy Share Image
I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not. — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Michael used to draw self-portraits with nightmares hidden in his curls.” — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is… — Ivan Eyre Copy Share Image
When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
If you were a painter and a rock and roll musician and weren't established in either - to be an artist today… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
“Here, however, you made art because it was the only thing you've ever been good at, the only thing, really, you thought… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“A young house painter who fails miserably in his choice of profession is capable, also for a period of twenty years, of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so –… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“Henri the painter was not French and his name was not Henri. Also he was not really a painter. Henri has so… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
She can paint a pretty picture, but this story has a twist. Her brush is her razor and her canvass is her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
