Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
As far as trying to make it terms of social hierarchy or status and all that in art and music - I've… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for… — L. S. Lowry Copy Share Image
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“These trends culminate in the Narmer Palette. Its very form harks back to a time when wandering cattle herders lived a seminomadic… — Toby A.H. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent… — John Currin Copy Share Image
“You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only quick studies of course.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
