I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now. — Kirsty Hume Copy Share Image
Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. — John Constable Copy Share Image
“Our body is a sacred temple A place to connect with people. As we aren't staying any younger We might as well… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“An object will display the greatest difference of light and shade when it is seen in the strongest light. . . .… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books,… — Tony Kaye Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock. — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough,… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
