“The scenic vistas of North Carolina and Tennessee make you feel like you're looking at a work of art, but crossing through… — Jennifer Pharr Davis Copy Share Image
“A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and -- undercutting the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Painting is feeling, never spoil it, Face is a book, try to read it, Love is precious, b ready to sacrifice for… — Babloo Copy Share Image
“Painter" "I said you are only keeping me here in the hospital, lying to my parents and saying I am madder than… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid. — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“He saw the white paper as the great universe of nonexistence. A single stroke would give rise to existence within it. He… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
My latest decorating obsession is dipping - like painting the bottom of things. I've done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in… — Tamara Taylor Copy Share Image
Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be able to use my painting ideas as decoration on pottery, but my painting did not… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting... — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking. — Mary Heilmann Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image