“Claude Monet's Water Lilies (The Clouds) consists of nothing more than dabs of different colored paint on a canvas.14 But because of… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting. — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
“If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me. — Judy Dater Copy Share Image
“Dipping my bare brush into your garish gold eyes, I draw your dreams close. They dance divinely within, sparking silhouettes alight. (Harboured… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes. — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you're describing, when you're… — Big Boi Copy Share Image
To me there's something so great about a singer who's very great and successful and does great work even though they don't… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Getting into the paint is easy. Seeing if the help comes is easy - they either come or they don't. The hard… — Caris LeVert Copy Share Image
I can't do the movies like I do painting because I am really more of a sort of dilettante or something. I… — Red Grooms Copy Share Image
I have finally completed painting our bedroom! So many walls, so much ceiling! Now eating pizza and watching 'The Big Lebowski'. Delightful. — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic… — Juan Gris Copy Share Image
Then as I turned seven, I gradually moved onto pastels and started painting on large canvases that were much bigger than me. — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
![“If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind of popular stereotypical image of the black figure, in both its flatness and slightly comic edge. To take that image as a starting point and to render it in a proto-classical medium, like egg…” quote by Kerry James Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/584/kerry-james-marshall-5157_art_if-you-look-at-the-image-portrait-of-the_829024.jpg)
![“[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me because of the very kinds of things that he did and the kind of life he lived.” quote by Johnny Cash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/86c/johnny-cash-1517_cattle_my-father-did-every-kind-of-work-imagina_829390.jpg)
![“[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e6/warren-mackenzie-4654_ceramics_bernard-leach-was-the-one-who-taught-us_830509.jpg)
