If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have her… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface, — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week! — L. S. Lowry Copy Share Image
I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing… — Gene Black Copy Share Image
“[The graffiti] had a sort of Christmassy look to it. The green paint tended to be short top to bottom but long… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
“A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight… — Osho Copy Share Image
I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci.… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me. — Thomas Gainsborough Copy Share Image
“I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark... my value unhangable.” — Marina Leigh Duff Copy Share Image
