Students want to know, "Are you painting by the numbers, or are you really present as a human being to what you… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I'm ashamed to say, I've done hideous pen portraits of people I don't like in my novels. And they'll say, 'Oh, that… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The men worked hard and faithfully. As a rule, in spite of the number of rough characters among them, they behaved very… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“... one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference. — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing… — Olaus Murie Copy Share Image
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition,… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me. — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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