I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it. — Harold Town Copy Share Image
I feel like I touch the paint basically every play I'm out there. — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Copy Share Image
“...belief that a painting is a window onto another world requires a leap of faith, a willingness to be won over by… — Sarah Ganz Blyth Copy Share Image
When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter best known for her self portraits, was an icon. — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
From our point of view it's important that Apple not be the developer for the world. We can't take all of our… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
“You love a job, no matter how hard it is, it’s still easy. Not sure, never studied up on the guy, could… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
“We always hide our souls whenever we create something that praises the heart.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE"... To whom?.. To where?...… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
“Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who… — Lori Ann Lesko Copy Share Image
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Just like the brush in the painters hand we have no idea where we are. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
It's difficult to choose between these art forms. Iconography is entirely different from the style of the 15th century masters, who were… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Dan moved forward and replaced Jonah at the helm. "I've got a plan!" "That's my man!" The famous grin disappeared as Jonah… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
“I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.” — Leonhard Emmerling Copy Share Image
Some people have recognized their friends in my paintings, but I'm not directly responsible for any hooking up as far as I… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
