“While Elstir, at my request, went on painting, I wandered about in the half-light, stopping to examine first one picture, then another.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Basically, the prosecutor who led case against me and that administration were trying to say that an actor can be held responsible… — Harry Reems Copy Share Image
Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint... — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing."… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“Nothing is clear now. Something must be the matter with my way of viewing things. I have no middle view. Either I… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness with other… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place. — Eve Best Copy Share Image
One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun. — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
I don't think the audience goes and thinks of the movie as a piece of art - there are some independent people… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is,… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
“I was a masterpiece; a painting in itself. He was changing me, molding me, and making me into something brand new. I… — Evelyn Deshane Copy Share Image
She can paint a lovley picture, but the story has a twist...her paint brush is a razor...and her canvouse is her wrist. — Alicia Tschantre Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
“Their poses are all different but the face is the same. Painted from memory in scene after scene is the fresh-faced beauty.… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Sellers in general maintain the quality of their products and services for fear of losing customers otherwise. But, when price controls create… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
![“For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted small flowers. This was the Christ painting [The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 2008] in my Down exhibition [2008]. Now, I simply can't spend eight hours a day painting small…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f48/kehinde-wiley-1194_christ_for-example-in-one-of-my-last-exhibition_923224.jpg)
![“I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock, after a slight shower during the night, to enhance the dews in the shadowed part of the picture, under 'Hedge row elms and hillocks…” quote by John Constable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c90/john-constable-11301_august_i-am-glad-you-encouraged-me-with-the-sto_925586.jpg)
