When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Unveil the shade of your soul through the paint brush of your life. Let the colors run true, let the canvas be… — Shady Grace Copy Share Image
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint.… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
The people who truly love you don't try to paint you with their brushes & colours. Instead they make you hold the… — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share Image
“Watching the painter painting And all the time, the light is changing And he keeps painting That bit there, it was an… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go?… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“There are vast numbers of portraits of Jesus in the art galleries of this world. These images are often so conflicting that” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according… — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
By attracting attention to yourself, you distract people from the movie. Ideally, you like a movie to speak for itself. You don't… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
I'm purposeless. I'm making art because I want you to look at that painting and I want it to affect you in… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
“If you stand before a canvas, up close, almost to the point where your nose touches paint, you will see nothing but… — Pen Copy Share Image
If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor,… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
