The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting. — Rene Huyghe Copy Share Image
I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference. — Fred Williams Copy Share Image
In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“The map of a face expresses things from which geography might learn. patrick Hayman, A Painter's Notes 1959” — Natasha Solomons Copy Share Image
I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects,… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger… — Allegra Versace Copy Share Image
I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been… — Sophie Blackall 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
Everything from the music to our clothes was truly authentic. Lisa and I were in my basement spray painting our overalls. — Rozonda Thomas Copy Share Image
Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get… — Jerry Pate Copy Share Image
You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
“It's like being handed over a scantron sheet and demanded to paint a self-portrait on it. It's possible, of course, but why… — Alok Vaid-Menon Copy Share Image
I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image