I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven. — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
Don't waste ur time tryna paint a perfect picture...cuz people will always point out error no matter how you try! — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life. — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
An empty canvas is a living wonder — far lovelier than certain pictures. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I studied painting, sculpture and video in both undergrad and grad school, but I've always been more interested in music and I've… — Jorge Elbrecht Copy Share Image
As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“We lived on 82nd Street and the Metropolitan Museum was my short cut to Central Park. I wrote: "I go into the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image