I liken all jobs to decorating. If you don't do the preparation, sand down and prime first, you won't get a good… — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And… — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet… — Jorg Immendorff Copy Share Image
When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“Leanoardo wrote that a painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
I really have to think of myself as a painter first because sculpture came much, much later. As a student at the… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
“The painting showed she did not yet know that lives end abruptly, that much of living is repetition and separation, that buttons… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry,"… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion. — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
“He was in old pajama bottoms, with a towel flung over his shoulder, a paintbrush in one hand. There was paint on… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art. — Sadie Frost Copy Share Image
I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away. — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting? — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
