“We were poor, but we were happy. We didn’t have much, but we were painting. (Interview in Washington Mag)” — Alfredo Arreguin Copy Share Image
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it… — Vincent Gallo Copy Share Image
The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear,… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting, — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be… — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
I used to want to be a writer or a painter, although I couldn't paint very well. — Jisoo Copy Share Image
Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from… — David Cage Copy Share Image
“Every artist, whether he is an artist of music, word or paint, has a signature that sets him apart.” — Jennifer Laurens Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
“Painting consists of long periods of minutes followed by short bursts of hours” — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body. — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“During that war we had a word for extreme man-made disorder which was fubar, an acronym for 'fucked up beyond all recognition.'… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough… — Jason Newsted Copy Share Image
It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image