Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular… — Edouard Vuillard Copy Share Image
The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
I think I've identified as an artist since I was a baby - literally a baby. I made a book of drawings… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr Copy Share Image
The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift. — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
“It is in Keats that the artistic spirit of this century first found its absolute incarnation. And these pre-Raphaelites, what were they?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course… — David Russell Copy Share Image
People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
“He looked like a painting in restoration - that at some point in his life he had been beautiful.” — Tor Udall Copy Share Image
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life. — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity. — Elisabeth Hasselbeck Copy Share Image
My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
“The power of beauty Lies within our soul And how we choose To see everything It is not found from The strokes… — Apple Blossom Copy Share Image
Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
She paints a pretty picture but her picture has a twist her paintbrush is her razor and her canvas has a wrist.… — Jessi Copy Share Image
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost.… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
At a certain point in his life, when he reaches a level of stature, a man commissions his portrait to go over… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
