If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
It's the director's job to piece together my performance, his interpretation of my takes, each take, and string them together and make… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
“Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.” — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more!… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn,… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
“He laughed. “What’s to say? Great paintings—people flock to see them, they draw crowds, they’re reproduced endlessly on coffee mugs and mouse… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Haha.. I got this picture today from my best friend Eva. Thank you very much Eva.. You are a good painter :) — Abdelghani Copy Share Image
There's a Diebenkorn painting - 'Ocean Park No. 68' - that is the color of a swimming pool and always reminds me… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
