Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore. — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect. — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
I didn’t paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy’s living room, — Ralph Fasanella Copy Share Image
It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Being with my wife and children in Kauai, seeing old friends there, being on the beach, painting, paddleboarding. Sitting under a Kauai… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will… — Tamara de Lempicka Copy Share Image
If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“All credit to the men who invented paint and canvas, but there’s more credit, eh? to the Raphaels and Holbeins who used… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Painter" "I said you are only keeping me here in the hospital, lying to my parents and saying I am madder than… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
