If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater, even though I didn't… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Painting my nails is the easiest way to look as though I've made an effort. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“A conviction, unformulated but strong, rose to the working level of her mind - that painting did something more important for Nicholas… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and her white walls… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
