There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner. — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
“I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters,” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting,… — Mike D Copy Share Image
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Ring sense is an art, a gift from God that flows out of a fighter like a great painting flows out of… — Ray Arcel Copy Share Image
“It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“The portraits were intended to parade their fellows like specimens in a zoo. Yet at the same time most show the castizos,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast;… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The one image I eventually found of Alexis St. Martin as a whole young man is in a painting by Dean Cornwell… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Seldom was blue for blue's sake present till Pollock hurled pigment at his canvas like pies.” — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
The magazine business is dying. It's a hard time for publishing. It does seem that everyone is much more opinionated now. I… — Barry Blitt Copy Share Image
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out. — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What will be the physiognomy of painting, of poetry, of music, in a hundred years? No one can tell. As after the… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“A flower, a painting or an item you put in an empty room only fills the place where it is placed; but… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I like strong/vulnerable interesting women, and then sometimes I like painting beautiful men, like Kurt Cobain, or Mr Darcy. — Stella Vine Copy Share Image
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind… — Yann Martell Copy Share Image
What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room.… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
It's obvious that I must explain what I want from an actor, but I don't want to discuss everything I ask him… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
