For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“It remains the professional Orientalist's job to piece together a portrait, a restored picture as it were, of the Orient or the… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
While I've always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn't until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“Art should be linked to abstract things - color, line, tone. It is not an instrument to improve social conditions and chase… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
What really happened was one day in my late five I went out and I found my dad in the garage staining… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
“If there is some red spot on one of my paintings it is unlikely to be the heart of the work. The… — Volkmar Essers Copy Share Image
'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates… — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“The most visible creators are those artists whose medium is life itself. The ones who express the inexpressible ~ without brush, hammer,… — Donna J. Stone Copy Share Image
I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves,… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
I did try painting, but it didn't work. I tried to dance, but that didn't work either. And then I tried to… — Daniela Vega Copy Share Image
I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
I want to make music three-dimensional. I want to make a song also a painting, and a painting also a culinary experience. — Benny Cassette Copy Share Image
