“A painting is more than the sum of the parts,” he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
When an artist wants to paint a painting, they have all those things in their head that they want to portray on… — Justin Verlander Copy Share Image
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records… — Charles Sheeler Copy Share Image
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I studied the way the individual flowers clustered around the single stalk, their sharp points fitting together like pieces of a puzzle.… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
“She looks like a Renoir, pale and glowing and mysterious against the midnight-dark canvas of my clerical black.” — Sparrow AuSoleil Copy Share Image
I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great… — George Frederic Watts Copy Share Image
You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is… — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
“The Master Thinker is an artist and is careful to paint only the divine designs upon the canvas of his mind; and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find… — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly… — Elizabeth Ross Copy Share Image
It would be nice if our lives were a canvas and all our decisions were based by painting by the numbers. You… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists, like… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one… — David Amram Copy Share Image
