“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.” — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four… — Brian Johnson Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I almost can't believe you won first place, because the painting deserves it so much, and people who deserve to win hardly… — Natalie Standiford Copy Share Image
A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done. — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Every job is a self portrait of a person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For several years I've been writing 100-word pieces. More recently I've been putting them together in groups of two and three. I… — Jim Moore Copy Share Image
That's my job, to be inside the paint. I have to be comfortable. That's my home. — Jonas Valanciunas Copy Share Image
I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all. — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
When Michael Werner saw a painting of mine, such as Die grosse Nacht im Eimer, which back then nobody wanted and everybody… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
“I spray the sky fast. Eyes ahead and behind. Looking for cops. Looking for anyone I don't want to be here. Paint… — cath crowley Copy Share Image
I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
