The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Certain artists in print or paint flourish, like babies-to-be, in confined spaces.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun. — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
“We let our lives mix with our dreams like two coloured paints, until we didn't know which is what and we didn't… — Atticus poet Copy Share Image
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
She can paint a pretty picture, but this story has a twist. Her brush is her razor and her canvass is her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop… — Ralph Allen Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling something, I know if it's a song, or if it's a little story that I'm going to write, or… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings...… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
“Paint for Mac Pro is the best Mac version of paint program used to edit image, filters and paint on Mac. A… — effectmatrix.com Copy Share Image
This is about relationships, about the placement of potent colors and the canvas sparkling through. I want the eye to dance across… — Barbara Januszkiewicz Copy Share Image
“Kolchak nodded, 'Right, because that would make sense." He took off his hat and crumpled it against his hip. 'When I lived… — Jason Henderson Copy Share Image
“In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the building. But to… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Elinor retreated to the terrace where the night air on her skin felt like a hot bath. She was hurt, it had… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it. — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
“A blanket is a blank canvas for which to paint. And a brick could be chiseled into a sculpture. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I like painting, I think it's relaxing. I also like designing; I don't really like the manual labor, to be honest. — Christina Anstead Copy Share Image
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive. — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components. — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting. — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
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