“The paper is your canvas. The pen is your brush. Create your masterpiece.” — Julian Vaughan Hampton Copy Share Image
“Every writer dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. — Richard Pousette-Dart Copy Share Image
When I make music and I'm talking on records, it's like I'm painting a picture. In my mind, I'm seeing a film. — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I feel fairly certain that my painting skills might not be best shown on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I'll have to come… — Derek Hough Copy Share Image
Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward,… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
“Oil paints were wiser to the human condition, understanding our imperfections and giving us enough time to rework ourselves until we made… — S. Walden Copy Share Image
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then,… — Ala Bashir Copy Share Image
Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Fiction, like sculpture or painting, begins with a rough sketch. One gets down the characters and their behavior any way one can,… — john gardner Copy Share Image
“Seeing how prominently Edmond had displayed the masterpiece, Langdon wondered if perhaps the painting itself might hold some clue as to what… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
