A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It… — Alan Licht Copy Share Image
“Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse” — Volkmar Essers Copy Share Image
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another… — Vija Celmins Copy Share Image
“I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.” — Juan Miro Copy Share Image
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I've seen only painters and fishermen and I think they're both the same kind of men who made a different choice one… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing,… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't like making fake things. And digital images that look like fake paintings disturb me. But when they don't look fake,… — Paul O. Zelinsky Copy Share Image
“When you build a house You nail down memories Paint and stain the fabric of time” — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image
I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. — Patrick Duffy Copy Share Image
Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
As the evening mist worked its way into the scene, creating a warm filter through which the lowering sun bathed its light,… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso) — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. —Voltaire” — Steven D. Price Copy Share Image
Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper — Jocelyn Najera Copy Share Image
“Wait. Like an art museum, or are we talking a history museum? I could tolerate the dinosaur bones and war relics, but… — Victoria Michaels 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
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or… — Joshua Greenberg Copy Share Image
your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
