Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter... — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it. — Janet Fish Copy Share Image
Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor… — Lois Mailou Jones Copy Share Image
The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn. — Guido Molinari Copy Share Image
When I am recording on my own, it's like an oil painting: I can put that on top of that and build… — Conor O'Brien Copy Share Image
Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything… — Audrey Tautou 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
Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
“Phidias and the achievements of Greek art are foreshadowed in Homer: Dante prefigures for us the passion and colour and intensity of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision… — Marcel Paquet Copy Share Image
It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing. — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Art is colourblind - the only colour thats meant to be in art is on the canvas. — Danny John-Jules Copy Share Image
You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good… — Hulk Hogan Copy Share Image
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.” — Kazimir Severinovich Malevich Copy Share Image
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
