No painting can tell the truth of a single instant; no snapshot can do anything else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
“In The Chamber of Secrets film, Dumbledore has a portrait on his wall of Gandalf the Grey from Lord of the Rings!” — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
At some point in life the worlds beauty becomes enough. You dont need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
A film carries six fine arts - it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It's a conjecture… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space.… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition,… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
“Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting… — Titian Copy Share Image
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes. LAM: What the eye sees in the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
