What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I love art. I used to have a painting of Mikhail Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev. — Armie Hammer Copy Share Image
My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber… — Keariene Muizz Copy Share Image
I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist… — Luke Combs Copy Share Image
The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
I go harder than the muthafucking paint,bitch I'm the shit, muthaafucker you aint — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about… — Ken Gillespie Copy Share Image
When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs… — Klaus Teuber Copy Share Image
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what… — John Guare Copy Share Image
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
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
It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I really believe in keeping your canvas very basic and sort of adding the accouterments from there. I look at creating intrigue… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
A fan once gave me an oil painting of myself. I couldn't believe he had taken that much effort and time to… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint. — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
Being a songwriter or a painter you're definitely facing your fears. You're facing your fears because you're speaking your truth; you're speaking… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
Love a painting once craved that gets farther and farther away by the day... — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image