Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day. — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams. — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“The executive intern responded: 'Do we all really value a painting more than a photograph anymore?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything… — Alicia Alonso Copy Share Image
I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day. — Jonathan Winters 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
Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own... — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves,… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
This is another world to the ones most Australians know. It was explained by my father once that it's like a blanket… — Hetti Perkins Copy Share Image
I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure… — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it. — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it. — Roger de Grey Copy Share Image
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer. — Billy Carter Copy Share Image
Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means. — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic,… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
“Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in… — Jean-Luc Godard 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 the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is…” quote by Ang Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/69b/ang-lee-2496_core_making-this-movie-as-a-period-piece-abou_796900.jpg)
