My father was into textile painting and ran a small business. He encouraged me a lot and loved seeing my plays. — Nana Patekar Copy Share Image
Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
“We always hide our souls whenever we create something that praises the heart.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter. — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are… — Vincent Van Gogh 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
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
I so love the animation process. Interesting, everything that I do in animation, the kind of crafting and skills of storytelling, totally… — Roy Conli Copy Share Image
I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“The concept of a writer writing a vivid and accurate scene in a language transparent and devoid of decoration so that we… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out. — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. — William Blake Copy Share Image
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color. — Alexander Eliot Copy Share Image
