Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
“I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest… — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
I am really fond of drawing, painting mehendi, so I would draw mehendi on a groom's hand and earn money. — Mrunal Thakur Copy Share Image
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas. — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting,… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Higher than every painter, higher than every sculptor and than all artists do I regard him who is skilled in the art… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president. — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
When someone shows you who they really are, dont try to paint a new picture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All credit to the men who invented paint and canvas, but there’s more credit, eh? to the Raphaels and Holbeins who used… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“I was so thankful He gave me this chance to enter a painting, for painting was my weakness. If I could do… — R.A. Rooney Copy Share Image
David Cameron has given one of my paintings to President Obama. It's quite mad, really. But it's OK. It's not the kind… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story. — Guido Molinari Copy Share Image
“As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become… — Andrew Loomis Copy Share Image
The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings — Joseph Pisani Copy Share Image
Hermes bags are the only bags that auction houses accept. Given that it's already valuable to begin with, making it into an… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody's going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well. — Kalyani Priyadarshan Copy Share Image
The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine!… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately life has a way of sidetracking one’s greatest ambitions. Painters, would-be artists, end up whitewashing walls. Sculptors are forced to design… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter. — Annie Parisse Copy Share Image
Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two. — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
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