I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“It showed a tiny baby girl floating in a clear glass vessel. The baby held a silver rose in one hand, a… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings,… — Victoria Azarenka Copy Share Image
The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I think 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
“Self-Portrait at Twenty" I stood inside myself like a dead tree or a tower. I pulled the rope of braided hair and… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I presume this is part of your erotic art collection?" she mused out loud. "It is most beautifully done; only look at… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity.… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.… — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
I've lived a long time, and a lot of things shut down. Painting is one of them. It never occurred to me… — Michael Chow Copy Share Image
Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination. — Kevin Henkes Copy Share Image
Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor...… — Keith Floyd Copy Share Image
The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife.… — Ilya Kabakov Copy Share Image
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
“Since the arrows of criticism aimed at these legendary masters, who directed the workshops of their day now frequently strike me in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting. — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
“There was the honour and austerity of money as he walked through art galleries, as he saw around him the collections of… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
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