I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases. — Larry Rivers Copy Share Image
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
My pictures are devoid of objects; like objects, they are themselves objects. This means that they are devoid of content, significance or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus Copy Share Image
My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“They want a woman who is a canvas, white and empty. Standing still, existing for no other purpose than to serve as… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting. — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line,… — Tomi Ungerer Copy Share Image
The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another.… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image