When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“He positively forgot where he was, and not even hearing what was said, he could not take his eyes off the marvelous… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.” — Danny Gregory Copy Share Image
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could… — Lorenz Hart Copy Share Image
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bight and finished product mended with bluff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“Sharon Garlough Brown may be a novelist, but she’s also a portrait artist, painting with tender detail the souls of four women… — Sharon Garlough Brown Copy Share Image
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
“Once in an endless meadow, just able to peer through the tawny haze of the grass tops, the child who was myself… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about… — Cory Arcangel Copy Share Image
You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living. — Ivan Albright Copy Share Image
“he [Picasso] used to say quite often, paper lasts quite as well as paint and after all it all ages together, why… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in… — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
“I’m making tiny pictures, on a canvas that is bigger than anyone can ever imagine. My tiny pictures seem to get lost… — Nanne Nyander Copy Share Image
Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
