I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the… — Claes Oldenburg 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
In the bit of painting that I've done, I'm interested in colour and texture. I'm very interested in transparency. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
“Practice alternating your focus between the big picture and small detail by allowing your eyes to focus broadly, then narrowing in on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“But I do not want to paint our circumstantial portraits so that we both emerge with enough well-rounded, spuriously detailed actuality that… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I suppose I got more praise for being able to draw things and paint things than I… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have… — Balthus Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's… — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.” — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“The owner doesn’t ask questions about where the painting has been. He’s just happy to have it hanging on his wall again.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“Life is a Canvas given to you to see how colourful you can make it” — RJ Yolande Mendes Copy Share Image
“... she suddenly looks different to Olympia, physically different, as though a portrait has been alterred. And Olympia thinks that possibly such… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style,… — Shirley Conran Copy Share Image
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music.… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint... — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
My process of working is not really that unique. I like to paint during the day, and block out large chunks of… — Rosson Crow Copy Share Image
I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind. — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
Every show I've done, I've just wanted to understand something of this weird life that I woke up in. I've never woken… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
