Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan,… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
A creative act enhances the beauty of the world; it gives something to the world, it never takes anything from it. A… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold… — Tony Tasset Copy Share Image
Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher. — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Each character represents a different color on the big palette of what this ultimate painting is going to look like, who your… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid… — Milford Zornes Copy Share Image
There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me,… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse… — Plato Copy Share Image
I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I got interested in set design for the theater. I was interested in architecture, but I was taking… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels,… — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too.… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations.... I… — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Now he stood in the farthest end of the cave, in front of the great lion chase he had watched Thorn paint… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively-- because, without this humble appliance, you… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky with the people I've met over the years. Way back in the early '70s I went to [Phil]… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“the principal horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again. — Janice Tanton Copy Share Image
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making. — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
Whenever I buy a painting, someone invariably says, "Oh, what a great investment." And I hate that reaction. To me, it's a… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next. — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look.… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
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