Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Life is like a beautiful painting. One where you can create your own masterpiece. — Jordan Williamson Copy Share Image
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. — John Constable Copy Share Image
The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic ideals emerging from Zen art focus heavily on naturalness, on the emphasis of man's relation to nature. The Zen artists, as… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
I'm good in the garden and I can do the cooking, ironing and cleaning, but I can't hang wallpaper or paint. — Linford Christie Copy Share Image
A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I think a good painting or a good work of art does many things it wants, I mean, maybe 15 or 20… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad.… — Tamera Alexander Copy Share Image
“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at… — Luther E. Vann Copy Share Image
“In the canvas of the coming year, paint not just with colors of knowledge, but with the bold strokes of your inner… — Dr. Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
I never knew what my role in art was, because I was such a deep appreciator and such a passionate appreciator. But… — Alexa Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“I once had a drinking contest with an artist on his yacht... It amused him as I took shot after shot, and… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
In 2005, I worked as a scenic painter for a while when I was taking a break from music. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have… — Max Kellerman Copy Share Image
I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
