The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers. — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I grab the nearest can of miracle paint this guy is spazzing about and a church key from the paint desk.” — Russ Linton Copy Share Image
Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause. — Su Shi Copy Share Image
I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing. — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting. — Robert Ryan Copy Share Image
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
I don't paint over my paintings with black paint. I paint black paintings. It isn't because I'm sad, just as I didn't… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“crazy,” she’d said, “but I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as… — David Kassan Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My parents were open about sex. And my dad makes paintings that have a sexual component and it still scares me. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative. — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other. — N. C. Wyeth Copy Share Image
No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting. — Dan Thompson Copy Share Image
The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting. — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock. — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
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