Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting? — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
“The canvas of your life can reflect infinite beauty depending on the colors you opt to splash on it.” — Pooja Ruprell Copy Share Image
“You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life.” — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
I always pride myself on being an inside and outside player and pride myself on what I can do inside the paint. — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered… — Kimberly Novosel Copy Share Image
“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
I find that many people have a hard time, at first, in painting a compelling image of an achievable future; to envision… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or… — Will Barnet Copy Share Image
You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time.… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he… — Dore Schary Copy Share Image
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting.… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these… — Roel Reine 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
The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The first exhibition that I used bright colours in painting the room was at a gallery in Paris, and there were seven… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
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