Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,” — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way. — Peter Doig 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
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately wanted to paint… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
It's funny, when things go on the internet now and people say 'that's not real,' well, that's what painting's always done -… — Margaux Williamson Copy Share Image
I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure… — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject.… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions..… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“You’re so…different when you work.” “Different bad?” “Just different. You really are only seeing me as a blob of flesh.” Xander shook… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
“I placed the tubes of paint on the palette and selected a small canvas. I prepared the palette with an assortment of… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
