You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Cobra haffi pull yuh golden door knob. Paint yuh bedroom wid oil paint whey mi have. — Mad Cobra Copy Share Image
What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't… — Anonymous 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
“Artists have a habit of becoming what they practice on the canvas. Who knows when it began? When he discovered that the… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship,… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
“My descendants will manage without my portrait' she smiled. Anyway they'll have plenty of photographs of me. To this our famous conductor… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“pageboy haircut, and I hadn’t even bothered to, like, brush it. Furthermore,” — John Green Copy Share Image
I'd rather lose large than win slightly. I think life is an oil painting, not a watercolor. — Janet McTeer Copy Share Image
I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings. — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives. — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake. — David Bellos Copy Share Image
“She looks like a Renoir, pale and glowing and mysterious against the midnight-dark canvas of my clerical black.” — Sparrow AuSoleil Copy Share Image
“Homes, Gamache knew, were a self-portrait. A person’s choice of color, furnishing, pictures.” — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph — Man Ray Copy Share Image
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Calling an engineer an applied scientist is like calling an artistic painter an applied pigment chemist — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
