The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color. — Larry Poons Copy Share Image
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls... — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing. — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity… — Chai Lu Copy Share Image
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
It was hard for me to move forward, because I take responsibility for what I introduce into the world through my paintings.… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again. — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I was Olivia, and I sat in a rowboat oared by Sage along the Tiber River. “If you think the Society is… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use -… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
School always comes first. Because I'm home schooled I paint about three hours every day on a school day, but more on… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
When I was in the NFL, whenever I got cut from a team I would do paintings of the players, they would… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
As we breathe and live, have a conversation, and you look in someone's eyes, and you see a sunset or have an… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion. — Euan Uglow Copy Share Image
“crazy,” she’d said, “but I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
