One day a student asked Taiga, What is the most difficult part of painting? Taiga answered, The part of the paper where… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world. — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. —LEONARDO DA VINCI, 15TH-CENTURY PAINTER AND INVENTOR” — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
“When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper (fig. 74), spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting. — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture -… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).'… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't get the value of the art or the painting you buy. The value you get from it is on… — Lemar Copy Share Image
It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me. — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I had a wife, kids and a mortgage and my acting career was nowhere, so I was painting and decorating people's homes. — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
